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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Octopus Books

A Review of My Dead by Amy Lawless

February 5, 2014

Mark Gurarie

(Portland, OR: Octopus Books, 2013) From Catullus to Carson, poets have grappled with how to properly address the dead, seeking a vocabulary that can perform the burial ritual, communicate sorrow, can celebrate and perhaps even immortalize. Are words ever enough, … Continued

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