Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. Dear Dad, is a pocket-sized chapbook by Bill Luoma, who lives in Honolulu and is the author of three previous books: Works & Days, Swoon Rocket, and Western Love. Dear Dad is a diarylike collection of brief letters written to Luoma's father, who is struggling with a stroke and impending death. The fifty entries, each beginning with Dear Dad, tell Luoma's father's story as a series of remembered events, providing intimate details of a life and death - Barbara Boncek. Luoma's work spans narrative autobiography, lyric poetry, visual poetry, and sound poetry.
