Half-Life

Fullers Half-Life spans the many years it takes to come to terms with the suicide of a husband and its traumatic effect on the children: drug abuse rape unflinching self-analysis survivors guilt; the loss here is hardly manageable. The poems look to the self but also outward to the bird feeder and garden to the paintings of the masters to Greek mythology to the music of a fiddle teacher to the dangerous beauty of southeastern Ohios sandstone cliffs. In the face of death the poems ask What do the living know? They know immense grief; how brutal and dark our human natures can be; that healing requires engagement with the physical world.