Lost loss in American elegiac poetry : 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"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Komura, Toshiaki (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2020]
Series:	Reading trauma and memory.
Subjects:	Elegiac poetry, American > History and criticism. Loss (Psychology) in literature. Elegiac poetry, American. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

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.