Word: griefe
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Listen to a successful woman discuss her failure to bear a child, and the grief comes in layers of bitterness and regret. This was supposed to be the easy part, right? Not like getting into Harvard. Not like making partner. The baby was to be Mother Nature's gift. Anyone can do it; high school dropouts stroll through the mall with their babies in a Snugli. What can be so hard, especially for a Mistress of the Universe, with modern medical science devoted to resetting the biological clock? "I remember sitting in the clinic waiting room," recalls a woman...
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...when Kit arrives at college and her brother Ben dies in the Vietnam War, we do not feel her grief. The incident stops up Kit’s self-expression and she vows never again to write verse. Then she finds Falin, the soul of poetry. When their student-teacher acquaintanceship matures into a love, he asks her to write English translations of his Russian work. Collaborating on the translations, they soon disburden themselves of startlingly parallel lives. She helps him, and he her, to exorcise the ghosts of the past, and she begins to rehabilitate a social life...
...nothing. The Nothing that can’t be said.” Unfortunately, this vision is really only acknowledged in a narrow sense: fear the secret police, lose a child in the womb, write a poem about it. Poetry is, with few exceptions, the voice of unspoken grief...
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