The Pilot Star Elegies: Poems

The centerpiece of this collection, ""Elegy for My Sister,"" is a sequence of poems on the suicide of the poets sister in which he gathers, piece by piece, the scattered fragments of his sisters 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.