Elegy: PoemsMary 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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... darkness and watch the world Illuminated on a screen . It's all I ask of you . You are now Only an aspect Of my brain . My eyes See you . The balance of what you are And what you do ― the syntax Of inaction versus the syntax Of ...
... darkness and watch the world Illuminated on a screen . It's all I ask of you . You are now Only an aspect Of my brain . My eyes See you . The balance of what you are And what you do ― the syntax Of inaction versus the syntax Of ...
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... dark came Down , blanketing and blanking out the sun And the sad and sorry . Monday will never come again . Sing a Song of Sixpence . These birds eat and eat . Everything . TRAGEDY It begins to sink in . Dead Is dead | 39 Hell❘
... dark came Down , blanketing and blanking out the sun And the sad and sorry . Monday will never come again . Sing a Song of Sixpence . These birds eat and eat . Everything . TRAGEDY It begins to sink in . Dead Is dead | 39 Hell❘
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... darkness , The dissolve of the moment . The mouse crawls out of its house , Remembers where it last ate a grub . 7 . Open ... dark Every morning and early in the late afternoon . With a gloom aspect like a seascape That was smoke damaged ...
... darkness , The dissolve of the moment . The mouse crawls out of its house , Remembers where it last ate a grub . 7 . Open ... dark Every morning and early in the late afternoon . With a gloom aspect like a seascape That was smoke damaged ...
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Anarchy arson ash box Australia beautiful bee sting beginning blank brain bright chair child circle clock clouds cold comes CRUEL WHEEL TURNS CURTAINS OF EMPTINESS dark daylight a gift dead death dirge dissolve door and look dream Dumb numbers enigma everything eyes face fate forever Four Hands girl glass goes gone Goodbye Goodnight gray green Grief Guggenheim Foundation hallucination happen heart stop Hello horizon line landscape Lethe light live MARY JO BANG meant memory mind mind's mirror Missing was refashioned morning mother never night NOVEMBER ELEGY ODE TO HISTORY once Open the door Phenobarbital poems Poetry Poetry Society quiet remembered role of elegy Rumination scene screen serpentine silver streak Sing sitting sleep slip Sonata for Four song sorrow sound Talk tell There's things thought tick told tragedy tree waiting wake watch window Wish-fish yellow