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Afterlife

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Grief fractures and scars. In Afterlife Michael Dhyne picks up the shattered remains, examining each shard in the light, attempting to find meaning-or at least understanding-in the death of his father. "If I tell the story in reverse, / it still ends with nothing," he writes. Yet it is in the telling that Dhyne's story-and the world he creates-is filled. The echoes of his childhood loss reverberate through adolescence and adulthood, his body, the bodies of those he loves, and the world around them-from Bourbon Street to dark and lonely bedrooms, from grief support groups to heartachingly beautiful sunsets. How we are shaped by our experiences, and how we refuse to be shaped, is at the heart of the poet's search for memory, meaning, and love-in all its forms and wonders. This bold and tender debut is a rousing reminder that poetry and art can heal. It's one thing to remember, another to not forget. A girl says, Can I start with my birth? and I ask her if anything happened before that, her eyes bright with wonder. - Excerpt from "95 South"
Michael Dhyne received an MFA from the University of Virginia, where he was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize; he is currently pursuing a master's degree in social welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. His work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Community of Writers, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His poetry has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, The Spectacle, and elsewhere.
To My Father, the Light Kara Insomnia Afterlife Living Room In Love with a Girl Eating Strawberries God's Eye Self-Portrait with Sky Left Over Memorial Arizona The Window New Mexico 4 a.m. Texas A Beginning Louisiana Without End Tennessee Last Words to My Husband Virginia Like a Gift Passed Between Us Nothing Blackout Self-Portrait on the Beloved's Body On Silence 95 South Sonogram Portrait of My Father as a Young Man Tell Me a Story Father's Day Untitled (Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor), Cy Twombly, 1994 Heaven Is Empty and We're All in It Notes Acknowledgments
Heartbreaking and brilliant in its delicacy and its depths, and in the many ways it reaches from interior drama to range far out into the wider world. The spell cast by this book ties our adult ways of moving through our lives to the primitive child-need for magic and reassurance: the longing we all know for order amid the terrors of random events, and the search, in the welter of our days, for the place or person or state of mind in which self can feel held." - Debra Nystrom
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