tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post5719873015697110845..comments2024-01-06T10:36:04.084-05:00Comments on A Commonplace Blog: Five Books of death at an early ageD. G. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-86700150139983807472009-11-23T15:15:10.158-05:002009-11-23T15:15:10.158-05:00Thanks for these reflections. They call to mind Do...Thanks for these reflections. They call to mind Doris Betts's remarkable but underappreciated novel, Souls Raised From the Dead, which ends with the father Frank, having buried his teenage daughter, to figure out how to move on with life beyond loss and grief. LRLee Ramseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16733652804418406952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-26175638815314225352009-11-16T10:26:35.724-05:002009-11-16T10:26:35.724-05:00OT: a Francine Prose link you may enjoy:
http://w...OT: a Francine Prose link you may enjoy:<br /><br />http://www.conjunctions.com/webconj.htm<br /><br />(You'll have to click on nav bar's JUST OUT, then scroll down to Prose's <i>A Simple Question</i>.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-61425331048314548292009-11-15T10:14:50.377-05:002009-11-15T10:14:50.377-05:00Though this is not a book in the sense you use the...Though this is not a book in the sense you use the word in your wonderful posting, I would argue that Keats' poetry--taken as a whole--is the poets' confrontation with his imminent death. Of course, plenty of other poems by other poets would also qualify: Ben Jonson's "On My First Son"; Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle in to that good night"; Emily Dickinson's "I felt a Funeral--in my Brain." And as for short stories, there is none more powerful than Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall." Finally, to return to your premise, I would also argue that Flannery O'Connor's two novels (and quite a few of her short stories) are both preoccupied with the abject power of death (which is a reality we all face, but O'Connor's imminent death becomes a complication in all of her writing).R/Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791522136032565027noreply@blogger.com