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Sebastian Matthews
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Beginner's Guide to a Head-on Collision offers the deeply moving poetic memoir of Sebastian Matthews's life in the years after the car accident that devastated him and his wife and son. The poems, which often feel like electric improvised prayer-songs, intimately evoke the terrors and wonders of catastrophic physical injury and of life re-booted. They are disturbing, eerie poems that embody the paradoxes of being The Dead Man at the crossing. They are amazingly honest in their hopeful, mystical sense of fate. In this unforgettable book, the listener is present at the scene of the accident where the hovering spirit that has departed the body addresses the living person re-entering his brokenness and answering for his transcendent awareness.
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Heartfelt poems and and real look inside the man's brain and and pain and trauma. Cool stuff!Three Cheers!
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Great book of poems from a great writer. Simple, direct narration. Love this kind of stuff.Really Special
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Short and Sweet
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Really Great
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As far as poetry audiobooks go, this is a good one. Simple, moving and entertaining too.Good Poems
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Solid Reading of a good book
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This was a good book, and a damn fine audiobook. Would love to see more from this guy.Very Cool!
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A moving memoir about a man's life following a terrible car accident. I enjoyed the hell out of this and wish that I could find more stuff like this on Audible. I highly recommend this!Loved it!
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I was very moved by the author's words. Sebastian Matthew's story is one of tragedy and rebirth. A wonderful testament to the healing power of the human spirit. Loved it!Powerful
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Sebastian Mathews pulled on my heart strings, let me tell you. Really cool story. Gritty and captivating.Really liked this
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