Witness and Silence: A Sestina

By George Arthur

Samuel Krier is a young and promising doctor. When he is diagnosed with cancer, everyone expects him to pursue treatment.Instead, Samuel returns to his childhood home, a dying town on the Kansas prairie, and spends the final months of his life writing mysteriously in a journal. Left to cope with his decision on their own, his friends and family wrestle with the ultimate question: "Why?"Written in the poetic structure of a sestina, Witness and Silence is at once a literary retelling of the Seven Seals of Revelation, a sketch of the desolation and decline of rural America, and a meditation on the failures of language and memory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1540665666
• ISBN13: 9781540665669
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"