Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A poet and funeral director continues to examine the relationship between the "literary and mortuary" arts in essays speaking to the existentials: between being human and ceasing to be, between birth and death, we are bodies in motion and at rest.
Table of Contents
Bodies in motion and at rest --Sweeney revisited --Bible studies --Wombs --The bang & whimper and the boom --The way we are --Notes on "a note on the rapture to his true love" --Decca, Dinky, Benji & me --The dead priest --Fish stories --The blindness of love --Funerals-R-Us --Johnny, we hardly knew you --Y2Kat --The big enchilada --The oak grove imbroglio --Nora --Reno --Afterword --Time time time.