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Selected from among the country’s leading literary journals and publications, Man in the Moon gathers essays in which sons, daughters, and fathers explore the elusive nature of this intimate relationship and find unique ways to frame and understand it: through astronomy, arachnology, storytelling, map-reading, television , puzzles, DNA, and so on. At turns painfully familiar, comic, and heartbreaking, the works in this collection also deliver moments of searing beauty and hard-earned wisdom. “Science claims it will one day be able to eliminate fathers from the equation by mating bone marrow with ovum. When that day comes, I imagine this book, along with a handful of other works (King Lear, Fun Home) will become even more necessary. Herein find the blueprints for the mystery, the maps for the uncharted , the keys to the archetype.” —NICK FLYNN, author of The Reenactments and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City “At this moment, I find myself at loose ends, lost in the various vacuums left by my father’s dying and my sons’ departures out into the voids. Yet this stunning constellation of essays centered me, became for me fine instruments of reckoning of where to stand in the ceaseless entropic dynamic of kin, of paternal keening. These waxing meditations demonstrate the inflationary universe, the heft and velocity of that big ol’ nothing. They elegantly fill, with sober hope and the balm of joy, the terrifying, infinite spaces between those waning stars.” —MICHAEL MARTONE, author of Michael Martone and Four for a Quarter “What an unreachable mystery the father is, preoccupied, unknowable, pervasive. In these fascinating essays, a shared portrait emerges as writers articulate the perpetual puzzle of the father and, with grace and candor, explore what it means to not know him, to never know him. As one voice, these essays investigate the man—his inventories, his myths, his mere traces —who makes up our horizons, who forever shimmers there beyond our collective grasp.” —SUSANNA SONNENBERG, author of Her Last Death and She Matters Stephanie G’Schwind is the editor of Colorado Review and the director of the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University, where she runs an internship program in small press publishing. LITERATURE / ESSAYS Cover design: Drew Nolte The Center for Literary Publishing A man at times so unknowable, he might as well be the man in the moon . . . MAN IN THE MOON Essays on Fathers & Fatherhood G’Schwind man-in-the-moon.indd 1 4/7/14 1:09 PM ...