Sunsets

Coulehan, Jack

Primary Category: Literature / Poetry

Genre: Poetry

Annotated by:
Aull, Felice
  • Date of entry: Nov-11-2002
  • Last revised: Oct-06-2015

Summary

The poet movingly describes the sunset of his father’s life in the context of their relationship, now, and in the recollected past. Now the son brings his crippled father to see a beautiful beach sunset, but the process is so difficult that they settle in too late to catch it. When he was younger, the son imagined that he would one day take his father on excursions to wild and beautiful places, where they would talk intimately about important matters and death was not a concern. "When I was young, I dreamed we arrived . . . with plenty of time before sunset. / The sky was glorious, and he could stand."

Commentary

Sunsets, described from a son’s perspective of his aging father, could be read in conjunction with Coulehan’s poem, Poison, described from the ailing father’s view of his illness and of his son’s reaction to it (see this database).

Primary Source

First Photographs of Heaven

Publisher

Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

Place Published

Troy, Maine

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Troy, Maine

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Troy, Maine

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Troy, Maine

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Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

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