Description
Poetry. Haunted and haunting, Colin Pope's bracing poems limn, with armorless and spectacular candor, what it means to be left behind and shaken to the core by a lover's upending illness and suicide. In these risk-taking pages, this new and necessary poet becomes a steely bard, a wide-awake chronicler, and an intrepid philosopher of the word farewell. This brave, go-for-broke first book has a razor-keen beauty and empathy so precise, so powerful and arresting that it's already clear that WHY I DIDN'T GO TO YOUR FUNERAL deserves its rightful place beside the finest literature of grief and mourning.
Author Bio
Colin Pope is the author of WHY I DIDN'T GO TO YOUR FUNERAL (Tolsun Books, 2019). Poems, essays, and criticism have appeared in journals and publications such as The Kenyon Review, Slate, The Gettysburg Review, West Branch, AGNI, Ninth Letter, Third Coast, Pleiades, Willow Springs, Best New Poets, and others. He is on the board of the People's Poetry Festival and the editorial staff of Nimrod International. Originally from Northern New York, he lives in Corpus Christi, Texas, and teaches at Del Mar College.
Author City: STILLWATER, OK USA