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Designated Mourner
Year
2014
Language
ENGLISH
Publication Information
ECW Press
Summary
A moving, lyrical, and original collection from an award-winning poet.Designated Mourner is a collection of elegies for an unconventional spouse and artistic collaborator, lost to addiction at a young age. These poems keen on the page, tracing tenderness and sorrow while raging against his night. .Well crafted and intimate, Designated Mourner engages with a range of forms. It is timely as grief is a misunderstood and often shunned emotion in North American society, as is drug addiction. The poems allow emotion while never losing their aural power.