"Perimeters of Grief": Elegy in and out of Bounds in Fred D'Aguiar's Memorial Poetry by Lourdes López-Ropero

“…This sequence, a response to the Virginia Tech shootings (April 16, 2007), the deadliest gun rampage in US history to date, invites critical attention not only because it remains critically unexamined, but also because through its title it presents itself as an elegy when an anti-elegiac turn has been identified in modern poetry. …”
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