Tenebrae: A Memoir of Love and Death

Tenebraeis the ancient Latin word for darkness-the gradual extinguishment of light, one candle flame at a time.

In this memoir told in poems, Dan Flanigan follows that gradual dimming through the last illness and death of his wife. Written in free verse and prose poems,Tenebraemoves across the full arc of a long marriage. These poems refuse the familiar consolations. There is no posturing, no preciousness, no self-pity. A dying woman is rendered as fully human-strong, flawed, dignified, unmi...