Writing Elegies For Dead Men I Didn't Meet

Cathi Rae's Writing Elegies for Dead Men I Didn't Meet explores the

painful but important subject of male suicide in a series of eloquent and

sensitive poems each about a different real case. Drawing only on

information publicly available on social media, these are poems of

respectful distance as well as of imaginative sympathy; and they bear

moving testimony not only to the distinctive experience of each

commemorated individual but also to the tragically powerful social forces

that lead men to s...