By David R. Slavitt
ISBN-10: 1937402223
ISBN-13: 9781937402228
With the Frenchmen in his head and his prognosis soaring, the author grapples with the right kind reaction to mortality, contemplating canines as a metaphor for wandering souls, the scratch of a pen and its connection to eczema and the distinction among his mother's homicide and his personal doubtful future.
As Slavitt writes in OVERTURE, "The brain isn't the place the true company of our lives is transacted, yet elsewhere, within the recesses of the body."
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