all the dead and dying stars is a luminous poetry collection that explores love, loss, memory, mortality, and the strange intimacy of being alive for a moment in an infinite universe. Through the lenses of science, mythology, philosophy, and nature, poet Maria Eldridge asks what it means to cherish another person, and what it means to say goodbye. The collection sets intimate experiences of desire, grief, addiction and longing against the vastness of oceans, shapes of constellations, whims of gods, and eternity itself. Blurring the boundaries between inner emotion and the physical world, with a voice that is tender, searching, and vividly imaginative, Eldridge explores love as something beautiful and devastating, fragile, yet insurmountable; fleeting, and infinite, all at once.