A brutally honest exploration of love and dementia.
DEATH, PLEASE WAIT etches a haunting life starting with teenage romance that leads to a long marriage that deteriorates with the husband's violent dementia and death in a nursing home. It is full of wrenching details and remarkable humor. The intimate workings of love are laid bare. The couple is separated from the start but we see them together through all the years of their union, the details of which are so specific that we see ourselves as well. We see the ambivalence and the steadfastness of love in all its phases.The poetry is powerful and raw and original, full of flowers and the "whine of anonymous farts." The range of emotion and expression is magnificent.
Poetry. Family & Relationships.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. DEATH, PLEASE WAIT by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro is full of wrenching details and remarkable humor. A teenage romance leads to a long marriage, followed by the husband's violent dementia and death. The intimate workings of love are laid bare. The couple is separated from the start (he is in a nursing home), but we see them together through all the years of their union, the details of which are so specific that we see ourselves as well. We see the ambivalence and the steadfastness of love in all its phases. The poetry is powerful and raw and original, full of flowers and the "whine of anonymous farts." The range of emotion and expression is astonishing. These poems are. extraordinary investigations of heartbreak in the face of loss. Death, Please Wait is not something to wait on. It has that much lifeblood in its pages.-- Matthew Lippman, Author of Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781893654327
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