Guidebooks for the Dead

by Cynthia Cruz

In Guidebooks for the Dead, Cynthia Cruz returns to a familiar literary landscape in which a cast of extraordinary women struggle to create amidst violence, addiction and poverty. For Marguerite Duras, evoked here in a collage of poems, the process of renaming herself is a "Quiet death," a renewal she envisions as vital to her evolution. In "Duras (The Flock)," she is "high priestess" to an imagined assemblage of women writers for whom the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1945588446
• ISBN13: 9781945588440
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Four Way Books
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"