I Saw Myself Alive in a Coffin (PDF)

"I know not much of death / except that it's where we are all going / and it calls for black" - from "The Funeral"

In this collection of poetic musings on life and death, Quinn explores her personal relationship with death, or sometimes lack of: death as something that happens daily, death as a feeling, death as fascination, death as intangible, death as wish, death as an inevitability.

Quinn’s relationship with death mutates with the ebb and flow of her depression and rises to a peak as suicidal ideation. Here, she imagines confronting her own death and what it would be like to walk away with a second chance; to really live the single gift of life she’s been given. Thus comes a respect for both life and death—one cannot exist without the other; one cannot truly live without accepting the inevitable.

Praise for I Saw Myself Alive in a Coffin:

“…fascinatingly detailed, morbidly beautiful, achingly relatable. Kait is in my head plucking at my thoughts about death and stringing them together perfectly.” – Ashley Jane, poet and author of Love, Lies and Lullabies

“I read and hear wonderful echoes of great Gothic writers like Poe and Shelley respectively; while there are hints of Dickinson in Quinn’s control of metre and rhythm too. What Quinn achieves, however, is never losing her own voice and originality among the greats who inspire us all.” - Kristiana Reed, poet and author of Flowers on the Wall and EIC of Free Verse Revolution

“This is the most beautiful death I have ever experienced.” – Gina Eileen, author and book reviewer

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File type: PDF
Kait Quinn Publishing (January 13, 2021)