The Ritual of Living: Poems on Devotion, Recovery, and the Practice of Staying (The Repair Arc)

After survival, there is still the question of how to live.How to stay.How to soften.How to make a ritual of remaining.The Ritual of Living is a contemporary poetry collection about recovery, sobriety, marriage, infertility, chronic illness, friendship, and the quiet rituals that sustain a life. In these poems, M. Rowan Nowak explores healing not as transformation or spectacle, but as daily practice - through devotion, emotional maturity, and the small acts of care that help us remain.Grounded in lived experience and quiet observation, this collection speaks to readers drawn to reflective literary poetry about love, grief, the body, and the sacred ordinary. The Ritual of Living is for those learning to build a life gently, imperfectly, and with intention. Read more