Read Before Closing

Authors

  • Sal Cetrano Author

Keywords:

mortality, acceptance, illness, self-knowledge, disappointment

Abstract

Framed as a set of instructions, the poem counsels acceptance of illness, loss, disappointment, and self-delusion, concluding that each survival only begins death anew.

Author Biography

  • Sal Cetrano

    Sal Cetrano is a poet and former history teacher in the high schools of New York City. Published in six countries, his work has appeared, among other places, in California Quarterly, Psychopoetica, Poetry Australia, The Galley Sail Review, Poetry New Zealand, Black Bear Review, Outposts Poetry Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review and Poetry Wales. A regular at Norman Mailer’s Gramercy boxing club in the 1980s, he takes pride in a twenty-seven-year correspondence with the author. Now happily retired, he clings to the Catholic belief that work is punishment for Original Sin.

Downloads

Published

2016-09-28

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2016): 10th Anniversary Issue

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Cetrano, Sal. “Read Before Closing”. The Mailer Review, vol. 10, no. 1, Sept. 2016, p. 523, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/601.