The City that Was Left to Me

Authors

  • Nicholas Samaras Author

Keywords:

grief, friendship, elegy, books, New York City, memory

Abstract

In the week after a friend’s funeral, the speaker eats at each of the dead man’s favorite restaurants, imagines the books bowing his shelves, and finally sits on his own floor to read as they once did together.

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. “The City That Was Left to Me”. The Mailer Review, vol. 9, no. 1, Sept. 2015, p. 382, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/546.