Ulalume

"Ulalume: a ballad. The skies they were ashen and sober ... So begins Edgar Allan Poe's hypnotic trek through his singular landscape. Poe wrote Ulalume in 1847, shortly after the death of his wife, Virginia Clemm that same year. The loss of a loved one is a recurrent theme in Poe's writing, particularly his poetry, and the resulting emptiness and aridity again resurfaces in Ulalume, entwining the passages like the tangled foliage of Weir."--Preliminary page.