Everyone I've Danced With Is Dead -- Mamie Morgan, Paperback Serge Spira From the ancient Polynesians who

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Everyone I've Danced With Is Dead -- Mamie Morgan, Paperback Serge Spira From the ancient Polynesians whoIn this elegiac collection fittingly titled Everyone I've Danced With Is Dead, Mamie Morgan's poems are exquisitely stitched as they offer up lamentation for, and salutation to, the dead. These are dedicatory jeremiads against loss that flame with anger, anguish, feminism, and, yes, even humor. And though they are underscored in a bladed nostalgia, they are never sentimental; instead, they are "finding new ways to feel" while "flinging every street