Part memoir, part fiction A Grief Sublime begins at the moment the author learns of the sudden death in a car accident of her husband of 30 years, Steve “Sproutman” Meyerowitz.

Ricocheting between the splintered past and the present, in her grief Robbins enters into conversation with Keats and Whitman, Melville and Dickinson.

“My poets, as I began to call them, offered me solace. They spoke to meaning and purpose.”

Beautifully read by award winning narrator Karen Allen with James Warwick as the voice of the poets,  Beth Robbins’ lyrical, powerful story takes us with her as her despair transcends into a hopeful new experience of life. And a recognition of the love that remains after death.

The true events of A Grief Sublime are being adapted into a short film directed by Academy Award winner Cynthia Wade.

This audiobook is followed by an exclusive interview with author Beth Robbins and audiobook producer Alison Larkin.

Reviews

“writing can save your life.
poetry can save your life.
and love.
well love can save your life a thousand times.
this book is a most lyrical, beautiful and profound rumination on grief, poetry, resurrection.”
—maira kalman, author & illustrator

“Luminous, breathtaking, A Grief Sublime takes us gently by the hand and beckons us to walk beyond the edges of pain into a transcendent world where the dead and living co-exist. Emerson speaks in the forest. Whitman reaches out to us with ink-stained hands. Keats perches in a bedroom, waiting for us to fully wake.”
—Cynthia Wade, Academy Award winning director