Requiem /
Requiem is a collection anchored in personal and collective grief, remembrance and commemoration, journeying through the loss of a mother in a series of elegies, fugues, and lamentations that draw from the Church's canonical hours of prayer as collected in a breviary. Historical and religious m...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Pittsburgh :
Carnegie Mellon University Press,
[2025].
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | Requiem is a collection anchored in personal and collective grief, remembrance and commemoration, journeying through the loss of a mother in a series of elegies, fugues, and lamentations that draw from the Church's canonical hours of prayer as collected in a breviary. Historical and religious mourning rites, and the grief work of John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Roland Barthes, Emily Dickinson and Mozart, among others, establish a lyric dialogue around aesthetic representations of grief, invoking a doubleness between the griever and the grieved; a mutuality and interconnectedness that illuminate the role of witness in poetry, mortality and transcendence. Requiem enacts our deepest longing to honor and immortalize the beloved. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 94 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-94). |
| ISBN: | 9780887487095 0887487092 |