Susan Stewart - More often writing soliloquies...

More often writing soliloquies of suffering and consolation than collective songs like the dirge, elegists have discovered that lyric sequences can provide a powerful means of addressing the tensions between grief's inchoate emotion and social rituals of mourning.

Susan Stewart

American Poet

Born: 1952

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Grief, Suffering, Writing, Collective, Lyric, Addressing, Consolation, More, Rituals, Emotion, Songs, Tensions, Powerful, Between, Like, Provide, Discovered, Than, Mourning, Often, Social, Means

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