In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying

by Eve Joseph

Ashes Gloria Dei Architects of Loss DEATH’S CONFIDANTE Last Visit The Mountaintop AFTERWORD 1964 Acknowledgments Sources THE BASEMENT The sun will die in its sleep beneath a bridge and trailing westward like a winding-sheet listen, my dear—how softly Night arrives. CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, “Meditation” A Forbidden Room I had just turned twelve when my brother was killed in a car accident.

BASEMENT The sun will die in its sleep beneath a bridge and trailing westward