Designated Mourner
by Catherine Owen
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Pub Date Apr 15 2014 | Archive Date Feb 28 2014
Description
Designated Mourner is a collection of elegies for an unconventional spouse and artistic collaborator, lost to addiction at a young age. These poems keen on the page, tracing tenderness and sorrow while raging against his night.
Well crafted and intimate, Designated Mourner engages with a range of forms. It is timely as grief is a misunderstood and often shunned emotion in North American society, as is drug addiction. The poems allow emotion while never losing their aural power.
Well crafted and intimate, Designated Mourner engages with a range of forms. It is timely as grief is a misunderstood and often shunned emotion in North American society, as is drug addiction. The poems allow emotion while never losing their aural power.
Advance Praise
"In this fearless and affecting book-length elegy, Catherine Owen offers us something to 'hold fast to against the irony.' Designated Mourner is a work of wide emotional and technical range, of devastating intimacy, necessary obsession, and immense generosity." —Steven Heighton, author of The Address Book
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781770412033 |
| PRICE | CA$18.95 (CAD) |
