A01=Sherod Santos
Author_Sherod Santos
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Product details
- ISBN 9780393320497
- Weight: 144g
- Dimensions: 142 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 23 Aug 2000
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The centerpiece of this collection, "Elegy for My Sister," is a sequence of poems on the suicide of the poet's sister in which he gathers, piece by piece, the scattered fragments of his sister's life. In other poems, Santos follows this elegiac theme into the broader contexts of myth and contemporary history to explore the ways each private loss is overlaid by those harrowing conditions by which our century defines itself.
Sherod Santos is the author of seven books of poetry. A National Book Award finalist, he received an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Chicago, where he works in an outreach program for the homeless.
