Pyre House: A Memoir In Verse

Lev St. Valentine’s debut poetry collection, Pyre House, is a poignant, pleading journey through a home where faith is dragged through the dirt, guilt burns like incense, and every door leads back inside. He holds grief up with bloody hands and speaks with visceral urgency. Pyre House is a memoir in verse that explores the raw aftermath of grief following Lev's younger brother’s death by suicide in 2021. Through fragmented memories and haunting imagery, the collection confronts themes of survival, estrangement, and the unsettling spaces where love and loss intersect. It’s a story about learning to live with the grief that doesn’t leave—but shifts and takes new forms. Read more