Great Regulars: Poets usually write elegies--that is,

lamentations for the dead--for people they know. But in this elegy, Annie Farnsworth of Arundel addresses a person she has never met except in a newsreel. Perhaps you saw him, too, on a grim day of September in 2001.

from Wesley McNair: The Portland Press Herald: Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

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