Title: Elegy
Subtitle: Poems
First published: 2007
Description: Mary Jo Bang's fifth collection, <em>Elegy</em>, 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.
Subjects: American elegiac poetry, Poetry, American poetry, Women authors, Grief, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
LC classification: PS3552.A47546 E55 2007