Dennis Sampson
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Books by Dennis Sampson
Poetry
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Dennis Sampson
The impending death of his elderly father leads the narrator of this book-length poem back to the particular mystery of the sacramental self, the terror and the necessity of bearing witness. These powerful eulogies testify that the courage to die is matched only by the courage to remain with the dying.
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