Time of Grief: Mourning Poems
Jeffrey Yang
(Editor)
Description
Time of Grief is an anthology of poems divided into forty-nine days of mourning: forty-nine days of mourning: reflecting a period of grieving as observed in Buddhist and Judaic traditions. Each day's reading consists of one or more poems by some of the world's most celebrated poets from diverse cultures and centuries, from classical times to today. Seventy-five writers from over twenty countries confront illness, loss, love lost, death and mortality, through moving requiems and lamentations, elegies and eulogies. Reaffirming poetry's ancient and intimate link with ritual, this collection opens up a calendrical, spiritual space for readers to experience bereavement as a means toward transformation.Product Details
Price
$15.95
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
February 21, 2013
Pages
152
Dimensions
4.4 X 0.4 X 7.1 inches | 0.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811220323
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About the Author
Jeffrey Yang is the author of the poetry books Vanishing-Line and An Aquarium. He is the translator of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo's June Fourth Elegies and Su Shi's East Slope, and the editor of Birds, Beasts, and Seas: Nature Poems from New Directions. He works as an editor at New Directions Publishing and New York Review Books.
Reviews
Time of Grief exemplifies how death might be treated with steadiness and reserve, for it is undoubtedly a value that stretches out from us into the twilight fields of the past and will no doubt extend beyond us far into a future we will never know.