Grace Schulman
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New Directions
Mourning Songs: Poems of Sorrow and Beauty
Pages
96Format
PaperbackRelease date
May 2019Publisher
New DirectionsWeight
4.6 ozSize
4 x 0.5 x 6 inA beautiful, compact, gift edition of some of the world’s greatest poems about loss and death, to ease the heart of the bereaved.
Who has not suffered grief? In Mourning Songs, the brilliant poet and editor Grace Schulman has gathered together the most moving poems about sorrow by the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, William Carlos Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Neruda, Catullus, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, W. S. Merwin, Lorca, Denise Levertov, Keats, Hart Crane, Michael Palmer, Robert Frost, Hopkins, Hardy, Bei Dao, and Czeslaw Milosz―to name only some of the masters in this slim volume.
