Sifting the Ashes

A collaborative poetry collection by Bram Stoker Award-winning writers Michael Bailey and Marge Simon-dissecting a fiery world's relentless destruction. In Sifting the Ashes, over a hundred individual and collaborative poems explore what it takes to survive after all is suddenly taken. Combined life experiences of love, loss, and personal tragedy sift what's salvageable from the aftermath of fire, searching through the layers of ash for lessons about death, cremation, and the various stages of grief. What might be found in the remains after all is lost?