Elsewhere: An Elergy

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Faisal MohyuddinPaperback, 56 pages9781736672150 Elsewhere: An Elegy meditates on the complexities of loss, on how private and everlasting the weight of grief can be. Moving betwee n short fragmented “answers” to the same lingering question, deconstructed haibun, and dream sequences, the speaker in Elsewhere: An Elegy cannot but help see himself as his own father, and his infant son as his own young self. He admits, “I’ve still not divined / how to unhusk this steadfast / grief from my poems.” Ultimately, he comes to recognise that the most healing way to grieve is to give, is to translate loss into generosity, pain into poetry. Show more