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tracing inaccessible grief from Stevens to post-9-11
"This book examines unconventional elegies of losses that are "lost" on us, discussing what it means to "lose" loss and what happens when dispossessory experiences go unacknowledged or become inaccessible"--
Wallace Stevens's elegiac mode : creating fictions of loss -- Sylvia Plath's poems of 1963 : dysthymia and subterranean loss -- Elizabeth Bishop's Geography III : unlosing lost loss -- Sharon Olds's The dead and the living : distant loss and ethical empathy -- Post 9-11 elegiac poetry : the unsaid -- Conclusion & afterword: Lost loss beyond American elegiac poetry.
Includes bibliographical references and index.