Download or read book The Afterlife of Objects written by Dan Chiasson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-10-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both intensely personal and deeply rooted in recognizable events of personal, familial, or national significance, The Afterlife of Objects is a kind of dreamed autobiography. With poise and skill, Dan Chiasson divulges the enigmas of the mind of not just one individual but of an entire social world through a beautifully constructed poetic voice that issues from a kind of mythic childhood of our collective, tortured humanity. This sophisticated debut collection offers deceptively simple poems that evoke highly complex states of mind with a voice that has long been listening to the discordant music of contemporary life.