Unforgettable."-Michael OndaatjeThese rhythmic poems negotiate the collisions between past, present, and future-and outline a universal mythology of the self. Exploring the overlapping arrangements of time and memory, life and death, Sikelianos skillfully draws lines from everyday minutiae towards an interior world where we are 'carrying our own living ghost inside.'"Comes to me"the future comes to mewith a horrifying screechthen it comes to me softlylike a weeping cloudand it comes to me likea fish, glass-eyed, floppingand it comes to eroticallymeanly& sharpit comes to me cashed out rollingelectronicallyin my future life I wasa cowboy, killedin a bar fighta flamingo in snowEleni Sikelianos is the author of six books of poetry, includingThe California Poem, a Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year. She directs the University of Denver's Creative Writing program. " | The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead by Eleni Sikelianos, Paperback | Indigo Chapters