Same After Life

Poetry

ISBN 978-1-957746-11-1

p.93

Same After Life wades into and through the dreamlike spaces of an imagined post-life trajectory using a crown of sonnets, apostrophe, and spatial play to tether our shared and semi-habitable reality of loss and survival to form. The collection, sectioned into four movements, scrambles and re-assembles concepts of sameness, afterward, and life to reinvent presence as a simultaneous space of acknowledged absence, asking readers to question the dichotomic-understanding of being and non-being. A book that is haunting, meditative, expansive, careful, and charged— this elegiac beast suspends us in a space of possibilities for transmutable iterations of being.