Grief Stick chapbook

poetry by Alex Behr

In exploring her loss, Alex Behr created Grief Stick, a poetry chapbook. Dedicated to Christopher Hartman, Alex’s fiancé, who died Oct. 6, 2020. Now in its third edition.

Chapbook: 40 pp. 5.5X4.25”. High-quality cover and paper stock. Picture Frame Press.

PRAISE

“Alex Behr’s poetry is ecstatic, tender, vulnerable, fierce, and wholly unique. When I think of Alex there’s not another writer she reminds me of. If I were to compare her work as a poet it would have to be a comparison to some sort of mix between the late, great, visual artist Carl Andre and the band Public Image Limited or a mash-up of Patti Smith and the band Minor Threat.”

—Matthew Dickman, Husbandry

“Just spent the afternoon reading Alex Behr. She is brilliant. Her hunger and her agony make sense to me. There was a vertigo in reading this. Everything throttling toward and away so I felt like I was in the rooms and places and lakes and tongues and beds she described (too close) and then instantly shooting away from the scenes (so far—thrust away). There was a kind of whiplash reading the body of the work wherein the body of the loved one is there and then gone. A tremendous immersion.”

—Anon.

REVIEWS

“Alex Behr’s GRIEF STICK is a beautiful and shattering real-life love story that cuts deep and true. A film of the same name will also come to life soon.”

—Powell’s Staff Pick, Recommended by Kevin Sampsell