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Memento Mori is a meditation on mortality, change and loss, by turns somber, thoughtful and humorous.
List of contents
Inventory (for the poets of Norfolk Correctional Institution)
For the Ancient Boston Bar with Neon Shamrocks in the Windows, Recently Departed
Dance
Sermon
The Dance Hall at Porter Square
Taking Down the Tree
Yardwork
Poem for an Absent Friend
House Money
Sonnet for the Young Woman Who Offered Me Her Seat on the Train
Measure Twice, Cut Once
Ceremony
Bowling with the Pope
will you kiss me now?
Ascension 30
cat haiku
haiku for apocalypse
The Night My Sister Danced with a Mouse
Terror Incognito: A Comedy in Three Acts
Act Two: The Main Event
Act Three: After the Show
About the author
Charles Coe is the author of two previous volumes of poetry, both with Leapfrog Press: "All Sins Forgiven: Poems for my Parents" (2013) and "Picnic on the Moon" (1999). He's also the author of "Spin Cycles," a novella published by Gemma Media.
Charles is the winner of a fellowship in poetry from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and was selected by the Associates of the Boston Public Library as a "Boston Literary Light in 2014." He teaches poetry in the MFA programs at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island and Bay Path University in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.
