This chapbook brings a series of grieving poems to a world haunted by one of its most troubling paradoxes: how we are struck down in an otherwise healthy life by the disintegration of the self in dementia. They are the poems of a husband who writes while watching his wife succumb to the disease. Finn Wilcox, whose collection Too Late to Turn Back Now portrayed the passion and humility of ordinary life in a direct and compelling way, amplifies that book's section of love poems with the force of such truth only his own inimitable descriptions of longing and solitude can bring to a poet's calling. These are poems to share, and to take in deeply as a compassionate offering when love and loss are shades of the same passage of time.
ISBN: 9780912887821
This chapbook brings a series of grieving poems to a world haunted by one of its most troubling paradoxes: how we are struck down in an otherwise healthy life by the disintegration of the self in dementia. They are the poems of a husband who writes while watching his wife succumb to the disease. Finn Wilcox, whose collection Too Late to Turn Back Now portrayed the passion and humility of ordinary life in a direct and compelling way, amplifies that book's section of love poems with the force of such truth only his own inimitable descriptions of longing and solitude can bring to a poet's calling. These are poems to share, and to take in deeply as a compassionate offering when love and loss are shades of the same passage of time.
ISBN: 9780912887821
This book is also availalbe in a saddle stitch binding (stapled) for $9.00
