Requiem

by Virginia Konchan

Poems that explore literary and religious depictions of grief to honor the loss of a mother.

Requiem is a collection anchored in personal and collective grief, remembrance, and commemoration, journeying through the loss of a mother in a series of elegies, fugues, and lamentations that draw from the Church's canonical hours of prayer as collected in a breviary. Historical and religious mourning rites, and the grief work of John...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887487092
• ISBN13: 9780887487095
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
• Length: 96 Pages