poetry collection is an urgent and sustained response to the murder of 32 people at Virginia Tech University (where D'Aguiar teaches) by a student in 2007. "Elegies", a sequence of 139 poems (mostly sonnets), powerfully explores the shock and repercussions of this event, the writing driven forward by a series of incisive meditations ("He left me his acts and I will bring all my past/To bear on what he did").from Charles Bainbridge: The Guardian: Continental Shelf by Fred D'Aguiar
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