Stars Need Counting Chapbook or A Frame for Frames

or A Frame for Frames

” something inked with precision and grit

The Rake’s Progress (1733-35)

a town crier in Owen Sound

yet funny -- are about madmen

Stars Need Counting Chapbook or A Frame for FramesStars Need Counting meditates on questions of suicide in the mode of A. Alvarez, when he says, in A Savage God, that there are no answers to these questions, because suicide is a closed world so closed that it's not our place to judge or cast shame. These essays explore the quality of what is closed about this world, bring it close enough to scrape the shame off the act, and for both those who have passed and those who survive, offer peace. "Principe