Meaningful Disorientations - Contemporary Poetry Review ...

Following Bang's previous book Elegy, The Bride of E seems its companion; indeed, “the bride of elegy” comes to mind. Elegy centers on the life of Bang's son, who died in 2004 at age 37, and, with Bang's chiseled, spare verse, Elegy wrests .... This poem describes what seems to be a either a horrific half-buried memory, or an active imagination that shields the child from actual horrors: the speaker as a child is in a lush Cairo hotel with his mother, a US dignitary or ...