After

After is about what follows loss or what remains enduring after time or an era has passed. It is about memory and what it clings to or holds on to despite all that inevitably, inexorably changes. It is about how new work always follows in the steps of the old toward the future, about influence and inspiration, whatever the source. And so, as the fourth in a tetralogy of "final" books beginning with A Last Hike In, After also reflects, in its own way of understanding them, upon the four last...