Talking to the Dead

by Feinstein, Elaine

• ISBN13: 9781857549027
• ISBN10: 1857549023
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

A tender work of mourning, this poetry collectionowing to the remembered words of a much-loved husbandrecalls the author's life before marriage and considers a future after her husband's death. Imagining that future, she confronts the myths of an afterlife, a belief in God, her debts to other poets, and her dependence on friends and children. At the center of these beautiful lyricswritten with complete control of rhythm and toneit is a man, rather than grief, that appears clearly.

Author Biography

Elaine Feinstein is a poet, a novelist, a translator, and a biographer. She is the author of more than thirty books, including Gold, Collected Poems and Translations, and After Pushkin.

Table of Contents

Winter	p. 9
Bremerhaven	p. 10
Home	p. 11
A visit	p. 12
Hands	p. 13
Beds	p. 14
Unsent email	p. 15
Mackintosh	p. 16
Fox	p. 17
Moving house	p. 18
Stuff	p. 19
Rain	p. 20
Hubble	p. 21
Immortality	p. 22
A match	p. 23
Skin	p. 24
Flame	p. 25
Another anniversary	p. 26
A pebble on your grave	p. 27
Widow's necklace	p. 28
Father and son : a dream	p. 29
Guernica	p. 30
Folk song	p. 31
Wittgenstein	p. 32
Afghan	p. 33
Restart	p. 34
Variation on an Akhmatova poem	p. 35
January trees	p. 36
Marriage	p. 37
Rosemary in provence	p. 38
Lazarus's sister	p. 39
Lisson grove	p. 40
Separations	p. 41
Bonds	p. 42
Wheelchair	p. 43
Living room	p. 44
Perugia	p. 45
Old poets	p. 46
Letter to Ezra Pound	p. 47
Common sense	p. 48
Seder	p. 49
Scattering	p. 50
Bruges	p. 54
At the heart of this black world	p. 55
Night thoughts	p. 56
London	p. 57
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