Mourning Songs (eBook)

Poems of Sorrow and Beauty

Grace Schulman (Herausgeber)

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2019
96 Seiten
New Directions (Verlag)
978-0-8112-2867-1 (ISBN)

Infos

A beautiful, compact, gift edition of some of the worlds greatest poems about loss and death, to ease the heart of the bereavedWho 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 Miloszto 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 doesnt heal grief; it emphasizes it, wrote Marianne Moore. The loss of a loved one never leaves us. We dont 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.5.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: aiken taylor award for poetry • Bereavement • Death • Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award • Elizabeth Bishop • Emily Dickinson • funeral poems • gift for bereavement • gift for loss of loved one • Grief • Keats • Lorca • Loss • Mourning • Neruda • poems about death • poems about grief • poems about loss • poems about sorrow • poems for difficult times • poems for funeral • poetry center • Poetry Society of America • Robert Frost • William Carlos Williams • winner of frost medal
• ISBN-10: 0-8112-2867-3 / 0811228673
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2867-1 / 9780811228671