Inventions of Farewell: A Collection of Elegies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393049725)

Inventions of Farewell collects English language poems of mourning from the late Middle Ages to the present. Aesthetic assumptions and poetic styles have altered over the centuries, yet the great and often terrifying themes of time, change, age, and death are timeless. The poems here--from Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, and Edna St. Vincent Millay to Sharon Olds, Stanley Kunitz, and W. S. Merwin--trace the trajectory of grief, but they also illustrate how the deepest sorrow has produced countless poignant and resonant works of art--words that can aid us as we struggle with our own farewells.

Author: Sandra M. Gilbert
ISBN-10: 0393049728
ISBN-13: 9780393049725
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2001
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.64lbs
Size: 8.64h x 5.94w x 1.43d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2001 pg. 301
Publishers Weekly 03/12/2001 pg. 87
Booklist 03/15/2001 pg. 1346
Publishers Weekly 03/11/2001