Joe Dolce

The Farewell Suites

Arts & Literature

“It is immensely soul-satisfying to read Andrew Lansdown’s confessional poems on the deaths of five of his close family members. Lansdown brings an acute sensibility into one of the most difficult of poetic subject matters: one’s own immediate family. . . . Twenty-one closing poems form a compelling dialogue between Lansdown and his father on his daily visits to the hospital, with thirteen poems, by way of reflection, after his passing. Empowering and staggering poetry that stops time.”