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The poem centers around a family living on a farm in Ohio who receives a letter informing them that their son has been killed, and chronicles their grief, particularly that of the boy's mother. It was one of his most frequently anthologized poems during his lifetime, and resonated with many Americans who had experienced the death of family ...
In the poem “Painted Tongue,” Byas writes: “We twist and turn in the mirror,/ my mother and I becoming each other,/ her bruises and scars passed down,/ family heirlooms that will take/ me ...
She worked as an associate editor for a publisher before switching to freelance work. Her 2016 poem "Good Bones" went viral and her 2023 memoir was a New York Times best-seller. Smith received several honors and awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence awards.
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A 3-year-old girl was found by her father mauled to death by 100-pound dogs in their Cincinnati, Ohio home two days after Christmas, authorities said. Kingsley Wright died from a...
The pastoral elegy is a poem about both death and idyllic rural life. Often, the pastoral elegy features shepherds. The genre is actually a subgroup of pastoral poetry, as the elegy takes the pastoral elements and relates them to expressing grief at a loss. This form of poetry has several key features, including the invocation of the Muse ...
Wright had discovered a terse, imagistic, free verse of clarity, and power. During the next ten years Wright would go on to pen some of the most beloved and frequently anthologized masterpieces of the century, such as "A Blessing," "Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio," and "I Am a Sioux Indian Brave, He Said to Me in Minneapolis."
When the artist, who is by definition spiritually free, speaks with his tongue, the words that naturally emerge connote infinity. Blake's illustration to the poem depicts two women supporting a naked semi-supine male figure who appears to be unconscious or dead. An elderly man prepares to pour liquid from a jug over the figure.