Requiem (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780887487095)

Poems that explore literary and religious depictions of grief to honor the loss of a mother.

Requiem is a collection anchored in personal and collective grief, remembrance, and commemoration, journeying through the loss of a mother in a series of elegies, fugues, and lamentations that draw from the Church's canonical hours of prayer as collected in a breviary. Historical and religious mourning rites, and the grief work of John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Roland Barthes, Emily Dickinson, and Mozart, among others, establish a lyric dialogue around aesthetic representations of grief, invoking a doubleness between the griever and the grieved; a mutuality and interconnectedness that illuminate the role of witness in poetry, mortality, and transcendence. Requiem enacts our deepest longing: to honor and immortalize the beloved.

Author: Virginia Konchan
ISBN-10: 0887487092
ISBN-13: 9780887487095
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/04/2025
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback