Author: E. D. Blodgett
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
Keywords: currents, elegy
Number of Pages: 90
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0888644507
ISBN-13: 9780888644503
A lament in light. A breath-taking memorial. Poetry and photography that compose the landscapes of remembrance. Once I saw your breath suspended in the air then I understood how fire could be white when I exhaled my breath followed yours into the sky that holds us both “Rich, profound, engaging, and written with an emotional depth rarely seen in much of contemporary poetry. There’s a meditative virtuosity throughout this work, original and perceptive, alive with intelligence and compassion.” Don Domanski
Author: Mary Jo Bang
Publisher: Graywolf Pre
Keywords: poems, elegy
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2009-09-29
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1555975402
ISBN-13: 9781555975401
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” Mary Jo Bang is the author of four previous books of poetry, including Louise in Love and The Eye Like a Strange Balloon. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where she is a Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Washington University. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Mary Jo Bang’s fifth collection, Elegy, chronicles the year following
Author: Benjamin Black
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Keywords: novel, april, elegy
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2010-04-13
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0805090916
ISBN-13: 9780805090918
Quirke—the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist—is back, and he’s determined to find his daughter’s best friend, a well-connected young doctorApril Latimer has vanished. A junior doctor at a local hospital, she is something of a scandal in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin. Though her family is one of the most respected in the city, she is known for being independent-minded; her taste in men, for instance, is decidedly unconventional.Now April has disappeared, and her friend Phoebe Griffin suspects the worst. Frantic, Phoebe seeks o
Author: Mason William
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: elegy, isis
Number of Pages: 16
Published: 2009-07-17
List price: $14.75
ISBN-10: 1113276665
ISBN-13: 9781113276667
Author: John Bayley
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: iris, elegy
Number of Pages: 275
Published: 2001-12-14
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0312421117
ISBN-13: 9780312421113
With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch--world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years--and poignantly describes the dimming of her brilliance due to Alzheimer’s disease. Elegy for Iris is a story about the ephemeral beauty of youth and the sobering reality of what it means to grow old, but its ultimate power is that Bayley discovers great hope and joy in his celebration of Iris’s life and their love. In its grasp of life’s frailty and its portrayal of one of the great literary romances of this ce
Author: Vivian Locke Ellis
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: elegy
Number of Pages: 82
Published: 2009-10-03
List price: $17.75
ISBN-10: 1115724738
ISBN-13: 9781115724739
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Author: David Kennedy
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: idiom, critical, new, elegy
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-10-02
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0415367778
ISBN-13: 9780415367776
Grief and mourning are generally considered to be private, yet universal instincts. But in a media age of televised funerals and visible bereavement, elegies are increasingly significant and open to public scrutiny. Providing an overview of the history of the term and the different ways in which it is used, David Kennedy: outlines the origins of elegy, and the characteristics of the genre examines the psychology and cultural background underlying works of mourning explores how the modern elegy has evolved, and how it differs from ‘canonical elegy’, also looking at female elegists and
