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Refusal to Mourn? Just the Opposite

By Robin Bates | Published: January 9, 2022

9 children died in yesterday’s Bronx fire, bringing to mind Dylan Thomas’s “Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Burning, of a Child in London.” The poem is not what it seems.

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Refusal to Mourn a Death by Fire?!

By Robin Bates | Published: November 14, 2018

How do we process the deaths caused by California’s Camp Fire? Dylan Thomas’s scandalously title “Refusal to Mourn” offers a way.

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