Elegy
March 23rd, 2009Helen Vendler reminds us in the new New York Review of Books that M.S. Merwin (born 1927, the same year as fellow poets John Ashbery, Galway Kinnell, and James Wright) wrote Elegy, “the best brief poem of mourning in English.” It is very brief indeed.
“Elegy”
Who would I show it to?
