"Joanne M. Clarkson's Hospice House is as much a collection about love, deep compassion, and generosity as it is about death and dying, from the perspective of a hospice nurse. These are poems of grit, grace, wisdom, and healing. Anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one will experience a kinship with Clarkson's powerful, poignant, and uplifting work." Lana Hechtman Ayers, author of When All Else Fails