A New Formalist Poet From D.C. In Search Of A Tagline

Written at the culmination of a years-long spiritual crisis, Elegy For My Youth is a journey through the darkness of the human psyche in search of lost time. In one hundred and ten poems written over three years, Benjamin Rose reflects upon a lifetime of isolation, abuse, and rage, from the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic in Autumn 2020 to the qualified hope of Spring 2023. 

Amidst the chaos of a world beset by war, pestilence, and hate, Elegy For My Youth is the struggle of one man to find clarity in his grief as the world burns. Previously published in part as The Road Of Glass, this first edition of the complete work contains dozens of new poems and represents Rose’s final authoritative vision of his “dark decade” and its end.