Another Life

by Daniel Lipara, Robin Myers (Translator)

Another Life, Daniel Lipara's subtle and shimmering debut, is a family history, an intimate epic, a travel story, and an initiation. Both meditative and cinematic, engaging both playfully and ardently with the Odyssey and Alice Oswald's Memorial, this book chronicles a constellation of relatives pushed into the light by the centripetal force of death. Another Life is less elegy than eulogy, summoning a vibrant range of voices and tones--caustic, tender, solemn, ecstatic--to praise the many lives that fit inside each and every one of us.

97 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2021

Reviews

[Elizabeth Grace · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book of poetry written in an autobiographical style chronicling a trip the narrator took as a teenager to India with his family. The narrator has a sense of wonderment about the world that is evident in his writing as he ponders reincarnation, mortality, familial bonds, the nature of time, and more. In addition to those themes is the narrator's undercurrent fear of losing his terminally ill mother. Lipara's writing is masterful, and the translation is beautiful; this book is unlike any other I have ever read and will surely stay in my memory for quite some time.

[Paola · Rating 4 out of 5]

"the island is deserted all the fruit trees razed it is
a land of ash and ember"