This page doesn’t cross-list all my various posts about writing and books (which you can find by using the “Categories” on the right side of the main page). Rather it’s intended to highlight the beautiful works that I’ve featured here, especially writing that make us cry, or that examine the experience of crying. (I know, sometimes they are even funny.) If you have more suggestions, please send them my way, and I’ll add them to this list. What novels, stories, memoirs, poems, or other writing make you cry? Or evoke powerful emotions?
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
Wislawa Symborska, “Slapstick”
Russell Banks, The Sweet Hereafter
James Agee, “Knoxville: Summer, 1915”
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mine the Harvest
Adrienne Rich, “Diving into the Wreck”
Martín Espada, “Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100” (mentioned and linked to in this post)
Tony Hoagland, “How It Adds Up”
Lisa Roney
Joyous Crybaby 