Word: griefs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...PHOTO ESSAYS Terror Attack Kills 19 Grief in Jenin More Photos...
...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...
...PHOTO ESSAYS Terror Attack Kills 19 Grief in Jenin More Photos...
...small boy is walking with his grandmother on a deserted stretch of beach. Suddenly an enormous wave rises up, crashes onto the beach and carries the little boy away. The grandmother is stricken with grief and then with anger. She turns her face skyward and reproaches, “God, how could you allow such a thing to happen? My grandson had his whole life before him. If you bring him back I promise that I’ll never ask for anything else as long as I live.” The sky darkens and another huge wave crashes...