Death And Other Speculative Fictions
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Caroline Hagood takes the reader on a wild ride, using surreal stories to process the recent death of her father. She mourns by making language work as a time machine to go back and let her father live again, bending space and time to make a place for him, if only in this book that is, above all, a s&233ance Death and Other Speculative Fictions is for anyone who is grieving the loss of a loved one and searching everywhere for answers.Caroline Hagood's vibrant, surprising prose poems speculate on the nature of human connection and loss with astonishing, understated force. Idra NoveyIn the aftermath of her father&8217sdeath, Caroline Hagood turns to a steady diet of speculative fiction for solace. In this haunting sequence of prose poem meditations, she draws on sources as rich as Charles Yu, Kurt Vonnegut, Madeleine L&8217Enge, and filmmaker George Miller to construct an alternate mythology to help process her grief. One is gripped by the vulnerability, the raw tenderness of her voice, yet at the same time inspired by its provocations. Hagood shows how the speculative imagination, rather than a mode of escape, is a powerful tool for understanding the real&8212eve rewriting it. &8220It8217s by way of the fabrications, the coming at it from outlandish angles &8230that we can really see how things are here on earth and how they need to change.&8221This book charts the road between life and death with furious creativity and vision. Elaine EquiDeath and Other Speculative Fictions is a gorgeous tribute, a survival diary, a love letter, an ode to a father, to speculative fiction, to time, and to life. It cobbles together from real and imaginary places and the thresholds in between, a means to think about the unthinkable, and to go on with the impossible and beautiful task of living in a world