Comfort for the Living: Poetry and Death

Comfort for the Living: Poetry and Death
“In Memoriam,” between circa 1858 and circa 1861, by Alfred Stevens. Musée d'Ixelles. Public Domain
Jeff Minick
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Poets, like the rest of us, have varying attitudes toward death.

Some urge resignation, others rage; some point us to an empty tomb and salvation, others to the dust of obliteration; some bemoan the brevity of three-score-years and ten, others celebrate life even when faced with imminent death.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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