In her first poetry collection in more than a decade, celebrated
novelist and poet Lynn Crosbie creates a sustained and confessional
record of her father's illness. The Corpses of the Future is a
sustained, confessional new collection of poems by Lynn Crosbie. It
tells the story of her father's battle with frontotemporal dementia
and blindness following a stroke. The poems chronologically recount
the poet's conversations and time with her father and capture his
still-astonishing means of communicating. The book's title is his
sardonic remark. Crosbie considers dementia to be a symbolic
language, and as such similar to poetry. The author's attempts to
understand her father's distress, pain, fear, and brave love are
assisted by her understanding of the "negative capability" required
of readers of poetry. This is a harrowing book, with moments of joy
and even levity. It is a collection of poetry about love, and
love's persistence, even under the most unspeakable circumstances.
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