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Article: The Poetry Of Pain.(The Arts; Poetry)(Elegy)
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- Newsweek
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- June 2, 2008
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Byline: Jerry Adler In 'Elegy,' Mary Jo Bang finds inspiration in the darkest of places. Once, years ago, I visited the home of a family whose son had died in childhood, and watched a video tribute the parents had made to the life of their child. Weeping, I resolved not to buy a camcorder myself until my children were grown. I don't even carry their photographs. "I'm a writer," I tell people. "I'll describe them to you." But when a child dies, the most ordinary detail can detonate unexpectedly, even in the hands of a professional. In "Death Be Not Proud," the 20th-century journalist John Gunther described his son, Johnny, who died of a brain tumor in his teens: "He was very blond, with hair the color of wheat out in the sun, large bright blue eyes, and the most beautiful hands I have ever seen." It's easy to imagine even the prolific Gunther, author of more than two dozen books, knocking off for the day to pour himself a stiff one after typing out the line about the…
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