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In this poetic memoir, Ryan Guth explores an old family mystery: the feud, mostly silent, between his father, an aspiring science fiction writer, and his (maternal) grandmother, struggling to keep her husband's funeral home running after his death. These poems - in verse and prose and letters - recreate the essential conflict between the father's desire to write and the pressing need for him to help out with the family business. The central question is the most puzzling: why didn't he return to writing when he could have? Why did he continue to brood over the bitterness of lost opportunities?
In this poetic memoir, Ryan Guth explores an old family mystery: the feud, mostly silent, between his father, an aspiring science fiction writer, and his (maternal) grandmother, struggling to keep her husband's funeral home running after his death. These poems - in verse and prose and letters - recreate the essential conflict between the father's desire to write and the pressing need for him to help out with the family business. The central question is the most puzzling: why didn't he return to writing when he could have? Why did he continue to brood over the bitterness of lost opportunities?
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