Death Prefers The Minor Keys - Sean Thomas Dougherty

In His Twentieth Book, Most Of Which Was First Composed On The Backs Of Medical Forms While On Break As A Third-shift Medical Technician, Sean Thomas Dougherty Brings Us A Memoir-like Prose Sequence Reflecting On Disability, Chronic Illness, Addiction, Survival, Love, And Parenthood. In Death Prefers The Minor Keys, Dougherty Offers The Reader Collaged Prose Poems, Stories And Essays Full Of Dreams, Metaphors, Aphorisms, Parables And Narratives Of His Work As A Caregiver. Moving Portraits Of Dougherty's Residents, A Series Of Letters To Death, Invocations Of Jewish Ancestry Through The Photography Of Roman Vishniac, Imaginary Treatments For Brain Injuries, And Half Translated Short Stories Of Lives Both Real And Imagined Populate This Collection.