The poems in Meg Hamill's Death Notices take the form of obituaries mourning lives that have been lost in the current War in Iraq. Attempting to exclude no group from this public display of grief, alongside obituaries for Iraqi civilians and Iraqi Police, there are obituaries for American soldiers, suicide bombers, and contractors for Halliburton. Death Notices repeatedly strives to rise above blame and judgment, until the project becomes simply an effort to "sustain our gaze" long enough in order to feel all of these losses fully.