The Silence of a Shooting Star

Description

Poetry. Disability Studies. 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 recent Empty Bowl 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.