Drinking Alone

Authors

  • Nicholas Samaras Author

Keywords:

grief, friendship, elegy, drinking, ritual

Abstract

On the day of a friend’s funeral on Staten Island, the speaker keeps their scheduled dinner alone at an Indian restaurant, drinking to the dead man’s name before heading home to his family.

Author Biography

  • Nicholas Samaras

    Nicholas Samaras is the author of “American Psalm, World Psalm” (Ashland Poetry Press, 2014). His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Poetry, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He is currently completing a new book of poetry and a memoir and he serves as the Poetry Editor for The Adirondack Review.

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Published

2015-09-30

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2015): Maestro

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Samaras, Nicholas. “Drinking Alone”. The Mailer Review, vol. 9, no. 1, Sept. 2015, p. 381, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/545.