A Mary Oliver poem about grieving as I remember my eldest, who died 24 years ago on this day.
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Remembering My Eldest 24 Years Later
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Can Pastoral Elegies Ease the Pain?
In a grad school class I once heard Peter Lehmann, a friend of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, say that, during the London blitzkrieg of 1940-41, all the London bookshops sold out their poetry. This means, I think, that in times of tragedy we turn to poetry for solace. It’s like the way that people who […]
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