The Return of What's Been Lost - Weltner, Peter

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Résumé :
The Return of What's Been Lost's fourteen stories and fourteen choral poems mediate on loss, personal and cultural, and on how mourning embodies in the self, incarnate and haunting, the hugeness of what is missing. The book begins during the Second World War, moves into the years immediately after it, enters into the era of Vietnam and later the AIDs epidemic, and ends with the wars in Iraq. Not all losses are absolute; joy also returns. In the story, Return of the Fallen, Paul Lassiter thinks, How much the dead must miss us to imprint their lives on ours. David Morris

Biographie:
Peter Weltner has published five previous books of fiction, including The Risk of His Music and How the Body Prays, five poetry chapbooks, among them The One-Winged Body and Water's Eye (both in collaboration with the artist Galen Garwood), and six full length collections of poetry, News from the World at My Birth: A History, The Outerlands, To the Final Cinder, Stone Altars, Late Summer Storm in Early Winter (with photographs and paintings by Galen Garwood), and most recently The Light of the Sun Become Sea. He and his husband live in San Francisco by the ocean.