From the Publisher
From the author of Words for the Taking : The Hunt for a Plagiarist and a masterful poet, this is the only poetry collection of his still in print. It is the work of a man in mid-life who has been witness to the deaths of childhood friends in freak accidents, high-school friends in Vietnam, and a parent. These poems deal with death in both serious and playful manner. They constitute Bower's search for whatever will suffice, are the meditations of a grown man upon the things that temporarily illuminate our lives.
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From the Back Cover
"Beginning with the hilarious, macabre "Notes from the Mortician's Convention," Neal Bowers' darkly comic Night Vision teases and toys with Death, bats it around with the masterful intensity of a cat keeping a mouse alive as long as possible." --Jonathan Holden
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
