{"product_id":"requiem-9780887487095","title":"Requiem","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoems that explore literary and religious depictions of grief to honor the loss of a mother.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRequiem\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection anchored in personal and collective grief, remembrance, and commemoration, journeying through the loss of a mother in a series of elegies, fugues, and lamentations that draw from the Church's canonical hours of prayer as collected in a breviary. Historical and religious mourning rites, and the grief work of John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Roland Barthes, Emily Dickinson, and Mozart, among others, establish a lyric dialogue around aesthetic representations of grief, invoking a doubleness between the griever and the grieved; a mutuality and interconnectedness that illuminate the role of witness in poetry, mortality, and transcendence. \u003ci\u003eRequiem \u003c\/i\u003eenacts our deepest longing: to honor and immortalize the beloved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginia Konchan \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of five books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eBel Canto, Hallelujah Time, Any God Will Do, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe End of Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a short story collection, \u003ci\u003eAnatomical Gift\u003c\/i\u003e. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eMarbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems\u003c\/i\u003e and her poems have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, New Republic, Atlantic, Believer, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAcademy of American Poets\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Carnegie-Mellon University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51181135593746,"sku":"9780887487095","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3a1bdfc3-f2ed-4665-be73-0653d0ecef1a.jpg?v=1744390786","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/requiem-9780887487095","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}