“The Flower Bearers is a memoir of duality, of intoxicating love and excruciating loss. Rachel Eliza Griffiths has experienced both in profligate, almost surreal abundance. Here is a poet plying her tools in the service of literature’s most vital work: describing life, and how to bear it.”—Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Memorial Days
“This profoundly felt account moves between the raw, the lyrical, and the elegiac as it seeks the light of healing.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“The Flower Bearers is a luminous bouquet of love in all its forms, tenderly gathered and arranged by a writer of rare grace and brilliance. A testament to both life and loss, every page of this book reads like an offering, reminding us how we all endure, and can even bloom, through the beauty and the breaking.”—Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts and American Rambler
“We enter The Flower Bearers through an attention to hands—beginning with a photograph of the author’s hands—that is also an attention to care, to how things, people, lives, are touched, brought into unexpected relation, made, and unmade. Rachel Eliza Griffiths has knitted together, from grief, rage, and love, a remarkable memoir: searching and tender and filled with something like grace.”—Christina Sharpe, author of Ordinary Notes
“In this astounding memoir, Griffiths offers a death-defying loop of triumphant love across life’s infernal torments. This is no mere book but a generational blooming.”—Canisia Lubrin, author of The Dyzgraphxst
“A beautiful and immensely powerful book about love, grief, and finding a way to be in a forever-altered world.”—Julia Samuel, Sunday Times bestselling author of Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving
