Elegy: Poems
Graywolf Press, October 2007. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Item #603372
ISBN: 155597483X
8vo. A Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ has shelfwear, edgewear, bumped corners, and a couple of nicks. Book has edgewear, bumped corners, and minor shelfwear. Interior is clean & unmarked. NOT an ex-library copy. // '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.' -- publisher.
Price: $7.00