Elegy
by:
Mary Jo Bang (author)
The winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and a 2008 New York Times Notable Book Look at her—It’s as ifThe windows of night have been sewn to her eyes. —from “Ode to History”
The winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and a 2008 New York Times Notable Book Look at her—It’s as ifThe windows of night have been sewn to her eyes. —from “Ode to History”
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781555975401 (1555975402)
Publish date: September 29th 2009
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Pages no: 80
Edition language: English
Mary Jo Bang's "Elegy" is a collection of poems written on the occasion of her son's death. Individually, they are cries of grief and remembrance; together they become the singular Elegy of the title. This book is a devastating meditation on not only life and death, but motherhood, the inevitabil...
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