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Originally Posted by Cally Conan-Davies
Only in Wallace Stevens is it possible to find such sustained and elegant meditations on death.
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No slight against Lawrence or Stevens, but L.E. Sissman did an amazing job of standing up to death in his last collected poems,
Hello Darkness. Donald Hall and his wife Jane Kenyon famously wrote on the subject and accomplished very moving work. Across the pond, George Barker wrote many elegies. I'm surprised Hall, Kenyon and Barker haven't come up yet. And Sissman was no slouch, writing in his consistently polished rhymed couplets or blank verse.