Poems of Grief, Loss, and The Search for Healing…Now That You Are Gone from This World Readers who love poetry collections will want to immerse in the delicate variety of poems contained in this new compilation “Now That You Are Gone from This World”. With engaging and heartwarming poetry that will keep you turning pages, this collection brings an emotionally intense, and yet fascinating sense of healing, through the loving and fond memories inside these pages. Here’s a short list of the poems you’ll find: See You. The Weeping Willow. July 7 The Amber Line The Silent Hills of Memory And more! Take the journey alongside an eclectic group of poets as they help you acknowledge, understand, and accept the grieving process at the very high spiritual and emotional level that only poetry can achieve. Find the support and hope you need for your soul during those painful moments by the hand of the poetic words of people who understand.

This book is about something that many people are dealing with these days around this new global village we have. Displacement. It is a form of mourning, like losing a loved one and for some equal in its hardship. Nevertheless, it is a rebirth as well, in which you start over to define your identity, and like a child know your world from scratch. Immigration is about adventure. Like go camping in a forest. Diaspora on the other hand, is getting lost in that forest. Diaspora happens when you lose your roots, you are a dweller here and an outsider at home. There is a lack of belonging in diaspora. You always feel this "otherness", the fact that you neither belong to the place you are dwelling in nor to the place you come from. This may even lead to a choice of solitude. However, at the end of the day, neither immigration nor diaspora are the real pain, it is the fact that people can victimise you by it that makes it irrationally bitter. I want to dedicate this book to two other victims of "where are you from?" Mahoor Mosahebi, my cousin, and Masoumeh Jafari, a best friend of mine.