As I set out to write my own, I read many elegies of classic and contemporary poetry, memoir, and hybrid texts with visual art. The elegy is as old as literature itself, but the form has been reinvented again and again in our attempt to make meaning of loss, honor the deceased, and to get as close as we can to conveying the experience of grief—something that thousands of years later remains out of our grasp, just beyond the reaches of language. Here are seven of my favorites.
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