Mourning Songs: Poems of Sorrow and Beauty - Softcover

Grace Schulman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811228665 ISBN 13: 9780811228664

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019

Synopsis

A 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. "The poems in this collection," as Schulman notes in her introduction, "sing of grief as they praise life." She notes: "As any bereaved survivor knows, there is no consolation. 'Time doesn t heal grief; it emphasizes it,' wrote Marianne Moore. The loss of a loved one never leaves us. We don t want it to. In grief, one remembers the beloved. But running beside it, parallel to it, is the joy of existence, the love that causes pain of loss, the loss that enlarges us with the wonder of existence."

About this title

About the Author:

Winner of the Poetry Society of America's highest award, The Frost Medal, Grace Schulman is the author of seven poetry volumes as well as a book of essays and a new memoir, Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage, about her life with her beloved late husband Jerome. She is a Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY, the former director of the Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, and was for thirty-five years the poetry editor of The Nation.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0811228665
• ISBN 13: 9780811228664
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96