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Winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize
Disequilibria: Meditations on Missingness is a hybrid memoir that recounts the 1982 disappearance of the author's stepfather, James Edward Lewis, a pilot and Vietnam veteran. Recounting his family's experiences in searching for answers, Lunday interrogates the broader cultural and conceptual responses to the phenomenon of missingness by connecting his stepfather's case to other true-life disappearances as well as those portrayed in fiction, poetry, and film. In doing so
Disequilibria explores the transience in modern life, considering the military-dependent experience, the corrosive effects of war, and the struggle to find closure and comfort as time goes by without answers.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Finding; Understanding
- Doubles
- Oracles
- Relics
- The Asymptote
- Parallax
- Nomads and Exiles
- In the Cloud
- The Middle Distance
- Face of Shadows
- Uroboros
- The Sun and I
- Hitchhike
- Sayaboury
- I Am the Grass
- The Boy Scout Handbook
- Circles
- The Verge
- Vita Activa
- Disequilibria
- A Beautiful Death
- China
- The Swerve
- A Feral Presence
- Dark Heart
- The Vortex
- Flitcraft's Folly
- Wakefields
- The Circumambient Self
- Subterranean
- Spirit Radios
- Lightness
- Foolish Dreams
- Old Soldiers Never Die
- Worldness
- Flying on Fumes
- July 3, 1969
- The Edge
- Desert Dreams
- The Return
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Robert Lunday is a professor of English at Houston Community College. He is also author of
Mad Flights and
Gnome.
