and many of her poems could be elegy. Her famous poem, "After great pain formal feeling comes."You need to know something about that state to write words like that. And I began to see something I was doing as well. I was distracting myself by doing what I do -- write poems and found it as a way of escaping this state of exquisite suffering.
The Role of Elegy
from PBS: Newshour: Mary Jo Bang Examines Grief's Poetic Form, the Elegy
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