Art of Dying

Hate to tell you, but you''re going to die. / Quite soon. Me, too. / Shuck off the wisdom while it''s warm. / Death does no harm / To wisdom. Sarah Tolmie''s second collection of poems is a traditional ars moriendi, a how-to book on the practices of dying. Confronting the fear of death head-on, and describing the rituals that mitigate it, the poems in The Art of Dying take a satirical look at the ...