Life After Death
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In this issue, Jesse Graves delves into that complicated space where family connects with history and place in three poems that begin with “An Exile.”
Ace Boggess tells the story of the long, winding road the carries eight men to a West Virginia penitentiary in “Welcome to Rock Haul.”
And Amy Wright remembers the summer after her brother died from cancer, and the line of communication that opened afterwards, in “Life After Death,” an excerpt from her forthcoming book Paper Concert: A Conversation in the Round, which is previewed below.
The images in this issue come from Dr. Alesha Sivartha’s The Book of Life: The Spiritual and Physical Constitution of Man. This enigmatic 1898 work expounds Sivartha’s unique blend of science, sociology, mysticism, and religion, a spiritual teaching which apparently attracted the attention of Mark Twain among others.
Titled The Book of Life: The Spiritual and Physical Constitution of Man, Dr. Alesha Sivartha’s enigmatic 1898 work expounds his unique blend of blend of science, sociology, mysticism and religion, a spiritual teaching which apparently attracted the attention of Mark Twain among others. Sivartha was clearly a man bursting at the seams with an abundance of complex and esoteric ideas, and while in written form this might translate into somewhat dense and bamboozling prose, visually it gave birth to a series of superbly intricate and striking diagrams. Obsessed with the magical properties of the number 12, Sivartha, in each of his wonderful “brain maps,” breaks down the grey matter into twelve different sections, as well as turning his gaze to other parts of the body such as hands and the nervous system as a whole. From Public Domain Review
