Threnody by Shanda Blue Easterday Later the same day I learn the meaning of "threnody," which cannot be repeated too often, this song or poem celebrating or lamenting a life lost but well lived, written to remember the many questions unasked while you were living, such as "Did you read the novels of William Coughlin?" You read most Michigan authors, and I find these books entertaining in a way that you might have, to celebrate your appetite for literature and life, however common or exceptional, like rules for imagists or pink petals on a wet deep green bough. Shanda Blue Easterday is a retired professor of Literatures in English, current editor and contributor for Grit and Grace: A Women Writing Anthology , and editor for Mind Vine Press. She sits on the board of a local school. Her poems have appeared in Aesthetica, The Dos Passos Review , Dislocate , The Louisville Review , Flying Island, and in many other places. Her poetry collectio...
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