Notes on Contributors Introduction: Contemporary Entangled Elegy  Adele Bardazzi, Roberto Binetti, and Jonathan Culler Part1 Resistance 1 The Elegiac Transnational Chinese Poetry, Sutured Absence, World Literature  Nick Admussen 2 Impossible Elegies Resisting the Paternal  Adele Bardazzi 3 Mourning Nature: The Elegiac Mode and the Not Yet Lost Re-reading Juliana Spahr’s “Gentle Now, Don’t Add to Heartache”  Francesco Giusti 4 Elegiac Subjunctive, or Secular Variations on Posthumous Personhood  David Sherman Part2 Revision 5 Shamanic Chant and Contemporary Korean Elegy Kim Hyesoon’s “Autobiography of Death”  Ivanna Sang Een Yi 6 Self-Elegy and the Making of Lyric Communities  Roberto Binetti 7 Durs Grünbein’s Elegy for Dresden  Karen Leeder 8 Rec(h)ording Elegy Transformative Mourning in the Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña  Rachel Elizabeth Robinson Part3 Re-mapping 9 The Poetics of Pain Lament and Elegy in Modern Greek Literature  Gail Holst-Warhaft 10 Mourning Women Two Modern Takes on Arabic Elegy  Emily Drumsta 11 Death as a Natural Presence and as a Monster The Elegy in African Textual Traditions with a Focus on Swahili Verbal Art  Roberto Gaudioso 12 Resisting Annihilation The AIDS Anthology Poem and Collective Melancholia  Brandon Menke 13 A Global Web of Elegies  Jahan Ramazani Index