Table of Contents

Preface

Another Kind of Loneliness

Mont Sainte-Victoire, Approximately

I Held Their Coats: A Study of Two Jokes

A Little Iliad

Obituary with Bamboo Fly Rod

Upside-Down with Borges and Bob

Meditation on My Cousin Lou, Dead at Thirty-Three

Glamour and Romance

Other People’s Pain and My Own

The Man on the Bridge

Naked to the World

Dead Animals I Have Known

Why Is It That We Do This?

Driving Directions to the Homes of the Dead

Some Fibbers

No Place Like

Falling In

I Built a Little Boat; or, The Necessity of Failure

Kinds of Ambition

Acknowledgments

Promotional Information

Soos writes about pain and despair, aging, his divorce, his father’s passing, regret, the loss of home, and the fear of death, remaining full of wonder in the process of confronting these dark topics.

About the Author

Frank Soos is the Alaska State Writer Laureate, 2015–2016. He taught writing at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, from 1986 until 2004. His publications include Double Moon: Constructions and Conversations (with Margo Klass), Bamboo Fly Rod Suite (essays), and Unified Field Theory (stories).