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Elegy

Elegy

Hardcover

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 155597483X
ISBN13: 9781555974831
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: Oct 16 2007
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award

Mary Jo Bang's fifth collection, Elegy, chronicles the year following the death of her son. By weaving the particulars of her own loss into a tapestry that also contains the elements common to all losses, Bang creates something far larger than a mere lament. Continually in search of an adequate metaphor for the most profound and private grief, the poems in Elegy confront, in stark terms and with a resilient voice, how memory haunts the living and brings the dead back to life. Within these intimate and personal poems is a persistently urgent, and deeply touching, examination of grief itself.

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