missing father, and the hidden God, chiefly as deprivations and negations. "0 hopeless Fathers ... let us also go on, go forward, rather than constantly feel backwards into our losses of a sustaining, ... years the poet has gone back into the nothingness of the Father. Do not call on him, all you who love ...

man could not live.... A negation of fiction... is equivalent to a negation of life itself.... There ... serve what might be called an epistemology of loss. Their value, as knowledge, is to enhance our ...

finger, jerk of the thumb, or conducting with that baton, humming opera, tall Lilly thought and handsome, ... stood­ or at the work details, no break provided, and begging requests refused- bear with me, Lilly ... a pouring over his hands, hot as his own insides, bathing him as he should be bathed. Lilly, rejoice in what ...