Description
Book SynopsisGrief fractures and scars. In
Afterlife Michael Dhyne picks up the shattered remains, examining each shard in the light, attempting to find meaning - or at least understanding - in the death of his father.
Trade ReviewHeartbreaking and brilliant in its delicacy and its depths, and in the many ways it reaches from interior drama to range far out into the wider world. The spell cast by this book ties our adult ways of moving through our lives to the primitive child-need for magic and reassurance: the longing we all know for order amid the terrors of random events, and the search, in the welter of our days, for the place or person or state of mind in which self can feel
held." - Debra Nystrom
Table of Contents
- To My Father, the Light
- Kara
- Insomnia
- Afterlife
- Living Room
- In Love with a Girl Eating Strawberries
- God’s Eye
- Self-Portrait with Sky Left Over
- Memorial
- Arizona
- The Window
- New Mexico
- 4 a.m.
- Texas
- A Beginning
- Louisiana
- Without End
- Tennessee
- Last Words to My Husband
- Virginia
- Like a Gift Passed Between Us
- Nothing
- Blackout
- Self-Portrait on the Beloved’s Body
- On Silence
- 95 South
- Sonogram
- Portrait of My Father as a Young Man
- Tell Me a Story
- Father’s Day
- Untitled (Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor), Cy Twombly, 1994
- Heaven Is Empty and We’re All in It
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
