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Writing the Self-Elegy - The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink (Paperback)
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Writing the Self-Elegy - The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink (Paperback)
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An innovative roadmap to facing our past and present selves Honest,
aching, and intimate, self-elegies are unique poems focusing on
loss rather than death, mourning versions of the self that are
forgotten or that never existed. Within their lyrical frame,
multiple selves can coexist—wise and naïve, angry and
resigned—along with multiple timelines, each possible path
stemming from one small choice that both creates new selves and
negates potential selves. Giving voice to pain while complicating
personal truths, self-elegies are an ideal poetic form for our
time, compelling us to question our close-minded certainties, heal
divides, and rethink our relation to others. Â In Writing the
Self-Elegy, poet Kara Dorris introduces us to this prismatic
tradition and its potential to forge new worlds. The self-elegies
she includes in this anthology mix autobiography and poetics,
blending craft with race, gender, sexuality, ability and
disability, and place—all of the private and public elements that
build individual and social identity. These poems reflect our
complicated present while connecting us to our past, acting as
lenses for understanding, and defining the self while facilitating
reinvention. The twenty-eight poets included in this volume each
practice self-elegy differently, realizing the full range of the
form. In addition to a short essay that encapsulates the core value
of the genre and its structural power, each poet’s contribution
concludes with writing prompts that will be an inspiration inside
the classroom and out. This is an anthology readers will keep close
and share, exemplifying a style of writing that is as playful as it
is interrogative and that restores the self in its confrontation
with grief.
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