There are towering trees and hills teeming with life. There are coastal mountains plunging headlong into the sea. You can also purchase a signed copy directly from the author. Published by Fomite Press on November 25th and available through Amazon now. And at the center: Joshua Sams, alive and then dead in the fall of 1982, linchpinning together the lives of those who loved him most as they struggle through the visceral permutations of regret, denial, and resignation, the desperate reach toward spiritual rebirth and the failure to be reborn. A mother, through rituals both musical and spiritual, counterpoints herself between feeling too at home in her grief and wishing her son’s ghost will finally leave her alone. A sister molds herself into a living memorial to her brother, becoming both mystic and pragmatist, ascetic and sensualist. Released April 2020 and available to order through Blurb.Ī young boy internalizes the burden of responsibility for his best friend’s unstoppable death. The son whose argument will never be heard. A bird that refuses to migrate in winter and a father who dies before an argument can be won. A hole at the base of a skull and a hole in your neighbor’s backyard. A house full of emperor moths and a house slipping into the sea. A walk though a blizzard, freezing and lost. A wife who cannot find her husband in the arms of any lover. A husband who cannot tell his dreams from his waking life. Overweight Americans trapped on the fire escape, tapping at your window. A tax collector fingering the slobber from his mouth. I hope some of you feel the same way.Ī dogwood. It actually comes as something of a relief, that this book once again has a chance at a continued public life. To both celebrate the first decade of this book’s life, and also end the years-long unavailability of this out-of-print debut work, this anniversary reprint features new artwork, a new layout, a new introductory essay (wherein I explain some of my convoluted personal history with the text), and also a handful of corrections that update and tighten the narrative’s language while also honoring the voice and intentions of the younger Douglas who original conceived and composed these coalescent fragments.
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