For Weeks After the Funeral
Copyright © 2006 by Andrea Hollander Budy. First published in Five Points and included in her book, Woman in the Painting. Reprinted by permission of the author and Autumn House Press.
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Poet Andrea Hollander Budy b. 1947
POET’S REGION U.S., Southern
Subjects Living, Sorrow & Grieving, Death
Occasions Funerals
Poetic Terms Free Verse, Simile
Biography
Andrea Budy was born in Berlin, Germany, to American parents and raised in the United States. She earned a BS in English and education from Boston University and an MA in comparative literature and oral interpretation from the University of Colorado. Her poetry collections include the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize–winning House without a Dreamer (1993), The Other Life (2001), and Woman in the Painting (2006). Budy is also the . . .
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SUBJECT Living, Sorrow & Grieving, Death
POET’S REGION U.S., Southern
Poetic Terms Free Verse, Simile
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