What do you think?
Rate this book
To Be Remembered
Following R. Clift's summer evolved poetry & photography collection, to feel anything at all, her second book in the series continues the narrative as the gentle promise of healing after loss. This hardback edition is meant to sit quietly on a coffee table- the words, a companion for grief accompanied by an escape offered in stunning photographs.
Like life and death, grief and joy, stillness and wander- everything must have balance. This is the beauty in aching. Autumn release. A collection of words and photographs woven together in hopes to remind you that no one is ever really gone. That there will always be a reason to keep going. Allow this autumn journey across pages to speak to your heart, hold your hand when you feel lost, let your mind wander to new corners of the world, and once again-challenge loneliness to be a work of art.
No matter how many times a heart may break, it will always keep beating.
Like life and death, grief and joy, stillness and wander- everything must have balance. This is the beauty in aching. Autumn release. A collection of words and photographs woven together in hopes to remind you that no one is ever really gone. That there will always be a reason to keep going. Allow this autumn journey across pages to speak to your heart, hold your hand when you feel lost, let your mind wander to new corners of the world, and once again-challenge loneliness to be a work of art.
No matter how many times a heart may break, it will always keep beating.
- GenresPoetry
194 pages, Hardcover
Published November 15, 2020
About the author
R. Clift
15 books31 followersRachel Clift is a writer, traveler, photographer, & artist based in the mountains of East Tennessee.
She began this journey of writing poetry in 2017 and has published seven books since the summer of 2019.
In the writing world, she is known as R. Clift or The Constellation Poet. More than anything, she longs to inspire people— in some way, somehow, to love who they are and live life courageously.
She began this journey of writing poetry in 2017 and has published seven books since the summer of 2019.
In the writing world, she is known as R. Clift or The Constellation Poet. More than anything, she longs to inspire people— in some way, somehow, to love who they are and live life courageously.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews
December 22, 2023
Like the leaves in Autumn, this book is a gentle falling.
'To Be Remembered' is a delicate and heartbreakingly raw exploration of grief, heartbreak, loneliness, slowly finding hope, and both the gift and curse of memory.
R. Cliff's poetry and paired evolved photography makes the reader feel both small and all-encompassing. It gives you a heart in your hands and leaves you to turn every page, inspecting that wild heart forever further (perhaps to admire its beauty, perhaps because it acts as a mirror to the reader's own, perhaps both.)
There is just something special about R. Clift's work that makes you look at the world differently - through longing, through knowing, from between the stars or between the trees. It makes you want to hold on tighter and to find your personal definition of 'living'.
The poems especially written as memorials for her late grandmother and grandfather hold grief (such a destructive thing) like clouds and like glass - weightless, however at the same time, so heartwrenchingly heavy. R.
Clift is an honest poet who's words are nothing but the music of heartstrings - singing no matter the broken, no matter a sad or happy song. She is brilliant and breathtaking.
'To Be Remembered' is a delicate and heartbreakingly raw exploration of grief, heartbreak, loneliness, slowly finding hope, and both the gift and curse of memory.
R. Cliff's poetry and paired evolved photography makes the reader feel both small and all-encompassing. It gives you a heart in your hands and leaves you to turn every page, inspecting that wild heart forever further (perhaps to admire its beauty, perhaps because it acts as a mirror to the reader's own, perhaps both.)
There is just something special about R. Clift's work that makes you look at the world differently - through longing, through knowing, from between the stars or between the trees. It makes you want to hold on tighter and to find your personal definition of 'living'.
The poems especially written as memorials for her late grandmother and grandfather hold grief (such a destructive thing) like clouds and like glass - weightless, however at the same time, so heartwrenchingly heavy. R.
Clift is an honest poet who's words are nothing but the music of heartstrings - singing no matter the broken, no matter a sad or happy song. She is brilliant and breathtaking.
October 30, 2021
Beautiful words!
One of my favourite poets! ♡
One of my favourite poets! ♡
March 9, 2023
A great palace of healing and optimism! 💜💜
“I will love you
in the only way an artist can-
with everything I am.”
“I will love you
in the only way an artist can-
with everything I am.”
July 24, 2025
very good poems. Rachel is such a good writer.
March 8, 2024
Love it. Rachel is such an amazing poet. I love reading her words and seeing the pictures of the places she's been. Awesome
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews