Accounting for the Dark

A poet wrestles with faith and loss post-pandemic.

In these poems, Peter Cooley encounters both the political realities of loss through the pandemic in New Orleans and personal loss through the deaths of family members and friends. Death is a constant in this book of elegies, but the redemptive power of representation is persistent as this poet of faith memorialises imagined and lived experiences.

Accounting for the Dark explores these themes with a profound sensitivity, offering a poignant reflection on the universal experience of grief and the enduring quest for meaning.