Dear Liz,
I wish you could read in Italian, Ungaretti's Il Dolore (which as a title
stands for not "pain" , but "the pain", its very essence, as a
metaphysical absolute (the entire collection was about the experience of
mourning his baby son).
The poems in memory of your sister are very moving but also aesthetically
in full control of their means of poetical expression.
Erminia
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