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anticipatory grief poems
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contemporary elegiac voices
contemporary reflections on mortality
contemporary spiritual poetry
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elegiac verse
emotional alchemy in words
emotional clarity in verse
emotional landscapes in verse
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evocative spiritual reflections
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grief poetry collection
haunted imagery in poems
hauntingly beautiful elegies
intimate elegies
intimate interior monologues in poetry
Language_English
lines infused with emotional flux
lyrical exploration of loss
lyrical portrayals of dread
lyrical reckoning with transience
lyrical resistance to loss
lyrical vulnerability and truth
meditations on love and death
meditations on mortality
meditations on the unknown
metaphysical lyricism
modern poetic meditations
mythic textures in contemporary verse
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poems of foreboding
poems of imagined futures
poems of watchful waiting
poetic confrontation with death
poetic explorations of inevitability
poetic reckoning with mortality
poetic ritual and prophecy
poetry born of anticipation
poetry of waiting and wondering
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ritual and mourning in literature
ritualistic exploration of sorrow
ritualistic language in poetry
searching for meaning in loss
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tenderness and disbelief in verse
timeless confrontation with endings
timeless grief poetry
transformative power of doubt
uncertainty and love in poetry
verses of resilience and tenderness
visionary grief writing
voices of spiritual ambivalence
writing about impending absence
writing at the edge of fear
Product details
- ISBN 9781625342638
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 180g
- Dimensions: 152 x 223mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jan 2017
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The Spirit Papers explores the magical thinking that precedes impending and inevitable loss, the taboo fantasia that occurs in the crippling timelessness of anticipation. Grieving for the future with a spiritual clarity characterized by ritual and doubt, Metzger’s lines are chameleons to every feeling. In the interminable window of expecting the unexpected, the poems ultimately materialize the very events they wish to ward off. The Spirit Papers chases mortality with equal parts disbelief and love.
Elizabeth Metzger is poetry editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal.
