The Pilot Star Elegies
Poems
23 August 2000
Description
A National Book Award finalist for 1999.
The centerpiece of this collection, "Elegy for My Sister," is a sequence of poems on the suicide of the poet's sister in which he gathers, piece by piece, the scattered fragments of his sister's life. In other poems, Santos follows this elegiac theme into the broader contexts of myth and contemporary history to explore the ways each private loss is overlaid by those harrowing conditions by which our century defines itself.
Also By: Sherod Santos 
Square Inch Hours: Poems
Paperback, 2019
“Sherod Santos brilliantly negotiates the provinces of poetry and prose, of imagination and memoir.… As enigmatic as Borges, and beautiful in a way only Santos can be.” —David Baker
Square Inch Hours: Poems
E Book, 2017
“Sherod Santos brilliantly negotiates the provinces of poetry and prose, of imagination and memoir.… As enigmatic as Borges, and beautiful in a way only Santos can be.” —David Baker
The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems
Paperback, 2012
“Santos captures moments of lyric intensity and beauty that feel as fresh today as when they were written.”—New Criterion
Greek Lyric Poetry: A New Translation
Paperback, 2006
Winner of the Umhoefer Prize: "A magnificent achievement, better, more animated, buoyant, and richly articulated than any other version I know."—Anthony Hecht
The Perishing: Poems
Paperback, 2004
"[Santos] articulates some of the most moving truths we can know about our shared humanity."—Washington Post