The Books Briefing: An Ode to Elegies
Your weekly guide to the best in books: Celebrating National Poetry Month
by Annika Neklason
Apr 12, 2019
2 minutes
This month, like every April since 1996, is National Poetry Month—an annual commemoration of a literary form forever entwined with the tradition of commemoration. Poetry first blossomed in an age before publications or printing or even written language, as a conduit for cultural memory, a way to pass histories and myths down through generations in song and verbal recitation. Thousands of years later,
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