
By Catherine Owen
Designated Mourner is a suite of elegies for an unconventional wife and creative collaborator, misplaced to habit at a tender age. those poems a fan of the web page, tracing tenderness and sorrow whereas raging opposed to his night.
Well crafted and intimate, Designated Mourner engages with a number varieties. it really is well timed as grief is a misunderstood and sometimes kept away from emotion in North American society, as is drug habit. The poems enable emotion whereas by no means wasting their aural power.
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