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“Making Mobiles” by Karolina Merska:
An artist’s manual on how to create beautiful Polish pajaki -
“Hands Up to the Sky” by Michael Franti & Spearhead:
A surprisingly upbeat song about acknowledging both loss and the beauty of life -
Coping With Election Grief:
While half of Americans are celebrating, the other half are in mourning
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Tag Archives: Loss in Poetry
“Kyrie” by Ellen Bryant Voigt
Ellen Bryant Voigt's sonnet sequence on the post-WWI Influenza of 1918
Few may be familiar with the Influenza of 1918. Although it took half a million lives in the U.S. and 25 million worldwide, most of whom were young adults, the pandemic somehow eludes due emphasis in our history books. One … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Ellen Bryant Voigt, Epidemic, Illness, Influenza, Kyrie, Loss in Poetry, pandemic, Poetry, Poetry about Death, Sonnets, World War I
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“The Man with Night Sweats” by Thom Gunn
Thom Gunn memorializes his loved ones who died of AIDS
Thom Gunn’s The Man with Night Sweats (1992) memorializes a San Francisco poet’s tragic losses due to AIDS. An “Anglo-American poet” known for his brainy yet visceral formal verse, the late British expatriate often wrote in meter and rhyme about his … Continue reading