11-11-2016 17:36 via bkmag.com

What Spoke that Strange Silence?: On Grief and Memoir

And what spoke that strange silence
After his clamour of caws faded? (Ted Hughes, “Crow’s Theology”)
If love is ineffable because it is “too much,” what then of grief, which acts as a vacuum? Where does language go with the intake of breath that accompanies the notification of “this person is no more?” And when the writer begins to recover their voice, why write down the blank?Grief blunts the senses, changes human perceptions of the world. “Night
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