The Last Thing I Will See Before I Die

by Sydney Hegele

Visceral and fearless. The Last Thing I Will See Before I Die unflinchingly dissects its own body. Hegele slices cross-sections of past and present, pulls the meat apart before the reader and asks what it means to be seen.

Genres: Poetry

39 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2022

About the author

Sydney Hegele is the author of The Pump (Invisible Publishing 2021), winner of the 2022 ReLit Literary Award for Short Fiction and a finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award. Their essays have appeared in Catapult, Electric Literature, EVENT, and others. Their novel Bird Suit forthcoming with Invisible Publishing in Spring 2024, and their essay collection Bad Kids is forthcoming with Invisible in Fall 2025. They live with their husband and French Bulldog on Treaty 13 Land (Toronto, Canada).

Reviews

[Nathaniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found a local zine press and realized they had a poetry collection from one of my favourite Ontario authors. This is a really personal, beautiful collection with a lot to say and enough space to say it. Hegele has proved once again that they know how to wield words powerfully.