Mourning songs : poems of sorrow and beauty /

Mourning songs : poems of sorrow and beauty /

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Imprint:	New York, New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2019. ©2019
Description:	144 pages ; 15 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Death -- Poetry. Bereavement -- Poetry. Grief -- Poetry. Bereavement. Death. Grief. Poetry.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11888132

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Other authors / contributors:	Schulman, Grace, editor.
ISBN:	9780811228664 0811228665
Notes:	"A New Directions paperbook original."
Summary:	"A beautiful, compact gift edition of some of the world's greatest poems about loss and death, to ease the heart of the bereaved. Who has not suffered grief? In Mourning Songs, the brilliant poet and editor Grace Schulman has gathered together the most moving poems about sorrow by the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, William Carlos Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Neruda, Catullus, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, W. S. Merwin, Lorca, Denise Levertov, Keats, Hart Crane, Michael Palmer, Robert Frost, Hopkins, Hardy, Bei Dao, and Czeslaw Milosz, to name only some of the masters in this slim volume. 'The poems in this collection,' as Schulman notes in her introduction, 'sing of grief as they praise life.' She notes: 'As any bereaved survivor knows, there is no consolation. 'Time doesn't heal grief; it emphasizes it,' wrote Marianne Moore. The loss of a loved one never leaves us. We don't want it to. In grief, one remembers the beloved. But running beside it, parallel to it, is the joy of existence, the love that causes pain of loss, the loss that enlarges us with the wonder of existence'"--

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Call Number:	PN6110.D4 M58 2019
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