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In The Unwalled City - 9781639821150
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In the Unwalled City takes its title from Epicurus, who wrote: "Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death, we human beings all live in an unwalled city." This affecting book-which weaves prose memoir with poetry-explores that feeling of being open to attack-in this case the pain of grief after Robert Cording's thirty-one-year-old son Daniel died. To borrow a phrase from C.S. Lewis, here is "a grief observed," encompassing not only the big questions but also the impact of grief on daily life. For a poet like Cording, one form that grief takes is that of speaking to his son. In "Afterlife," Cording has a vision of his son replying: "let the emptiness remain empty . . . Stop writing down / everything you think I'm telling you. / This is your afterlife, not mine." At the heart of In the Unwalled City is a series of questions: How does loss change a person? How does one chart a new life that both acknowledges a son's death and still finds a way back to delight? How does one now live fully in the unwalled city?
- | Author: Robert Cording
- | Publisher: Slant Books
- | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 120 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1639821155
- | ISBN-13: 9781639821150
- Author:
- Robert Cording
- Publisher:
- Slant Books
- Publication Date:
- Sep 01, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 120 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1639821155
- ISBN-13:
- 9781639821150