Sherod Santos
Description
The centerpiece of this collection, "Elegy for My Sister," is a sequence of poems on the suicide of the poet's sister in which he gathers, piece by pi
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ece, the scattered fragments of his sister's life. In other poems, Santos follows this elegiac theme into the broader contexts of myth and contemporary history to explore the ways each private loss is overlaid by those harrowing conditions by which our century defines itself.
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Genres
History
Tags
Poetry
American
Reading Moods
Tragic & Heart-Wrenching
Contributors
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Publishing Info
Publisher
W. W. Norton, Incorporated
Month-Year
Jun, 2000
ISBN
ISBN-13: 9780393320497
ISBN-10: 0393320499
Language
English
No. of Pages
103
Format
Paperback
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