A moving, lyrical, and original collection from an award - winning poet. 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.
- ISBN10 1322543127
- ISBN13 9781322543123
- Publish Date 29 December 2014 (first published 1 April 2014)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint ECW Press
- Format eBook
- Language English