TY - BOOK ID - 77888242 TI - In search of the great dead PY - 1999 SN - 0809385112 1299050727 0585333963 9780585333960 0809322609 9780809322602 9780809385119 PB - Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Dead KW - Cadavers KW - Corpses KW - Deceased KW - Human remains KW - Remains, Human KW - Death KW - Burial KW - Corpse removals KW - Cremation KW - Cryomation KW - Death notices KW - Embalming KW - Funeral rites and ceremonies KW - Obituaries UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77888242 AB - With grim humor and humorous grimness, In Search of the Great Dead engages the great themes of poetry: death and fame. The title poem of this collection records Richard Cecil's quest for the tombs of the famous dead. At first the search leads him on a tour of famous European tombstones-the grave of Chateaubriand in St. Malo, the shared tomb of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, Yeats's old Celtic cross in Sligo-but gradually it expands into areas where all the tombs have been erased by time or vandalism-the tombs of ER -