The Art of Dying: Volume 41

by Sarah Tolmie

Hate to tell you, but you're going to die. / Quite soon. Me, too. / Shuck off the wisdom while it's warm. / Death does no harm / To wisdom. Sarah Tolmie's second collection of poems is a traditional ars moriendi, a how-to book on the practices of dying. Confronting the fear of death head-on, and describing the rituals that mitigate it, the poems in The Art of Dying take a satirical look at the ways we explain, enshrine, and, above all, evade death...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773552715
• ISBN13: 9780773552715
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.8" x 7.3"