Grief - McKenzie Lynn Tozan

I Will Vandalize His Angel Tombstone

by McKenzie | Sep 28, 2015 | Blog, My Poems

And it is from this moment that you are going to live. Think of that. You’re standing in the middle of what used to be a cornfield,...

Grief as Meditation, Grief as Art: Reading Meg Day’s Last Psalm at Sea Level

by McKenzie | Nov 23, 2014 | Poetry Collections, Reviews

Writing reviews can be extremely difficult. What’s ironic, though, is that I tend to find greater difficulty in writing a review about a book that I loved, rather than one I was unimpressed with. Perhaps this is because I tend to find some angle of merit in...

The Surrealist and Bodily Nature of Grief: Reading Kristin Bair O’Keeffe’s The Art of Floating

by McKenzie | Sep 5, 2014 | Fiction, Reviews

Even when you read regularly, it takes time to find something truly great; but every once in a while, there will be a book, a poem, a story, that truly turns you on your heel, holds you in place, and keeps you loving, recommending and discussing that piece for...

The Power of Grief, The Power of Hallucination, The Power of YA Literature: Reading Rebekah Crane’s Aspen

by McKenzie | Jul 28, 2014 | Reviews, YA Literature

Let me point one fact out from the beginning: I admire young adult literature, and I believe it can be extremely powerful when the central characters are confident, self-possessed individuals, dealing with both personal and more widely-recognized issues....

I Will Vandalize His Angel Tombstone

Grief as Meditation, Grief as Art: Reading Meg Day’s Last Psalm at Sea Level

The Surrealist and Bodily Nature of Grief: Reading Kristin Bair O’Keeffe’s The Art of Floating

The Power of Grief, The Power of Hallucination, The Power of YA Literature: Reading Rebekah Crane’s Aspen

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