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Inventions of Farewell: A Collection of Elegies

By Sandra M. Gilbert (Editor), Emily Dickinson (Contribution by), Wallace Stevens (Contribution by), Edna St Vincent Millay (Contribution by), Sharon Olds (Contribution by), Stanley Kunitz (Contribution by), W. S. Merwin (Contribution by)
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By Sandra M. Gilbert (Editor), Emily Dickinson (Contribution by), Wallace Stevens (Contribution by), Edna St Vincent Millay (Contribution by), Sharon Olds (Contribution by), Stanley Kunitz (Contribution by), W. S. Merwin (Contribution by)
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A collection of poetic responses to loss—both consolation and inspiration to any reader. Death has always served as one of the most powerful catalysts for poetry. Whether with Dylan Thomas, counseling readers to "Rage, rage against the dying of the light," or with Walt Whitman, taking comfort in the serene arrival "sooner or later" of "delicate death," poets throughout history have faced the mortal losses that all of us inevitably encounter.Inventions of Farewell collects English language p...

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PoetryAmerican PoetryEnglish, Irish, & Scottish PoetryOther American PoetryEnglish PoetryElegiac poetry, American