Christine Garren. Among the Monarch...

Christine Garren. Among the Monarchs. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pres 2000

Indeclinable, relational, sovereign in its way, the preposition is an apt mark both for loss and for elegy's formal reckonings. More than simply evoking a before and after, los has a way of overpowering time, of nestling into the two the there and here, deforming past and what is yet to be to fit its own unbending form. What shall this los not govern? What will take its place onward the far side of the place los brings us to? dirge a poetry of position more than resolution, catches itself in these questions, and