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Poems that explore literary and religious depictions of grief to honor the loss of a mother. 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.
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Virginia Konchan is the author of five books of poetry, including
Bel Canto, Hallelujah Time, Any God Will Do, and
The End of Spectacle, as well as a short story collection,
Anatomical Gift. She is coeditor of
Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems and her poems have appeared in the
New Yorker, New Republic, Atlantic, Believer, and
Academy of American Poets.
