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In his twentieth book, most of which was first composed on the
backs of medical forms while on break as a third-shift medical
technician, Sean Thomas Dougherty brings us a memoir-like prose
sequence reflecting on disability, chronic illness, addiction,
survival, love, and parenthood. In Death Prefers the Minor
Keys, Dougherty offers the reader collaged prose poems, stories and
essays full of dreams, metaphors, aphorisms, parables and
narratives of his work as a caregiver. Moving portraits of
Dougherty’s residents, a series of letters to Death, invocations
of Jewish ancestry through the photography of Roman Vishniac,
imaginary treatments for brain injuries, and half translated short
stories of lives both real and imagined populate this collection.
Through these, Dougherty engages issues of labor, the ontology of
disability, and the mysticism of life. Death Prefers the
Minor Keys is most of all a kind of love letter to Dougherty’s
wife, and her courage and complicity in the face of long-term
illness and addiction. Ultimately, we see how the antidote to
despair can reside in daily acts of caring for other human beings.
"These soul-infused, deftly crafted stanzas pulse with the
rhythms of a poet who lives his life out loud. Sean Thomas
Dougherty has always shunned convention in favor of his fresher
landscapes--and this book will be the one that stamps his defiant
signature on the canon."--Patricia Smith
"Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line" is a powerful,
grief-driven, deeply felt collection that finds the beautiful and
the true, the little epiphanies that give our lives meaning no
matter how ephemeral they might be.
The author of ten previous poetry collections, Sean Thomas
Dougherty teaches poetry at Case Western University and lives in
Erie, Pennsylvania, and Cleveland, Ohio.
Winner of the 2019 Paterson Poetry Prize Winner of the 2019
Housatonic Book Award for Poetry Sean Thomas Dougherty celebrates
the struggles, the dignity, and the joys of working-class life in
the Rust Belt. Finding delight in everyday moments—a night at a
packed karaoke bar, a father and daughter planting a garden, a
biography of LeBron James as a metaphor for Ohio—these poems take
pride in the people who survive despite all odds, who keep going
without any concern for glory, fighting with wit and grace for
justice, for joy, every god damned day.
Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts features cutting edge poetry by
T.R. Hummer, Rebecca Seiferle, Jude Nutter, Sean Thomas Dougherty,
Doug Anderson, Daniel Nathan Terry, Karen Carissimo, Patricia
Clark, Kathryn Winograd, Ann Fisher-Wirth as well as short stories
by Pam Houston, Alfred Corn, Christiane Buuck, Carlos Gomez and
Jamie Carr.
Although the Paris Peace Accords of October 1991 opened the way for
peace in Cambodia, the country has always "enjoyed" a violent
history. As a small country, about the size of the state of
Missouri, a lot of news or information about Cambodia does not
surface. What does occasionally make the news is the fact that the
Khmer Rouge are still actively doing something in the country, the
country best known as the "Killing Fields." This paper begins with
a brief history of Cambodia to include what the United Nations
accomplished there in the early 1990s. Did the work of the United
Nations help Cambodia realize the potential of democracy? The paper
also addresses Cambodia's current political, military, and social
status. The conclusions will show that although the first free and
fair elections in 20 years were successfully held in 1993, much
internal work remains. The United States granted most favored
nation (MFN) status to Cambodia in 1995. Additionally, there is
talk of Cambodia joining the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) in the summer of 1997. In order to pave the way for both
MFN and ASEAN status, the United Nations presence helped break down
years of Cambodian isolation. How has this affected Cambodia? Many
thousands of refugees who sought to save their very existence
escaped to various countries during the period of the Pol Pot
regime (1975-1979).
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