Summary of the book: A moving and personal piece which records through diary excerpts, letters and other writings, - the mosaic of mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical reactions of a man (the poet, the author) whose wife is dying. It’s the writer’s “helpless and spasmodic” recording of this passage from life. It also provides an exploration of the writer’s relationship to women..

Reasons for this choice:  It is a unique and very personal creation of one of our island’s literary legends.  It gives wonderful and poetic insight into the emotions of grief, loss, and acceptance of fate of a man whose wife is dying. It is poignant, sincere, and raw in its exposure of the male mind-set and offers glimpses – sometimes-prolonged ones into the relationship of man & wife, man & mother, man & sister.

Rights holder: the author