A review by matthewwester
Elegy by Mary Jo Bang

4.0

The circumstance of this book is heartbreaking -- the poet had lost her son and the poems chronicle the first year of mourning. So unlike most chapbooks, there is a real sense of time's passing between the poems. Throughout the book we are told what month it is, and themes reoccur as they naturally would in grieving. Mary Jo Bang is a talented poet and these are powerful poems. I recommend it, good read.