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Requiem

Requiem

Konchan, Virginia

Paperback

Series: Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0887487092
ISBN13: 9780887487095
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Published: Mar 21 2025
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.35 Depth: 8.35
Language: English
Poems that explore literary and religious depictions of grief to honor the loss of a mother.

Requiem is a collection anchored in personal and collective grief, remembrance, and commemoration, journeying through the loss of a mother in a series of elegies, fugues, and lamentations that draw from the Church's canonical hours of prayer as collected in a breviary. Historical and religious mourning rites, and the grief work of John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Roland Barthes, Emily Dickinson, and Mozart, among others, establish a lyric dialogue around aesthetic representations of grief, invoking a doubleness between the griever and the grieved; a mutuality and interconnectedness that illuminate the role of witness in poetry, mortality, and transcendence. Requiem enacts our deepest longing: to honor and immortalize the beloved.

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