num_pages: 92
description: 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.
language: English
title: Elegy
titlecomplete: Elegy
genres: Womens, Death, Poetry, Read For School
ratings_count: 535
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Graywolf Press