Ghost Variations Poems by Elton Glaser (Paperback Book)

Name: Ghost Variations Poems by Elton Glaser (Paperback Book)
Brand: University of Pittsburgh Press

University of Pittsburgh Press

Elton Glaser\u2019s ninth book of poems is haunted by the loss of his wife, each April bringing back the memory of her death. The opening line confesses the struggle to find a language for this grief: \u201CI\u2019m learning to speak in the accents of adieu.\u201D As the book progresses through the seasons, it evokes the places that remind him of their times together, in the South of their youths, in the Midwest of their long marriage, and in their travels here and abroad. And yet there is also another strain that keeps breaking through, the particulars of joy in family and the natural world, grandsons and \u201Cswaggering lilies,\u201D and a swan like \u201Ca sullen bride in her white finery.\u201D With an irrepressible wit and a music that enlivens his lines in both celebration and elegy, Glaser never forgets that, as Wallace\n\nGhost Variations\nPoems\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPle;