Beginner's Guide to a Head-On Collision

By: Sebastian Matthews

Narrated by: Sebastian Matthews

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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Great book of poems from a great writer. Simple, direct narration. Love this kind of stuff.

Three Cheers!

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Heartfelt poems and and real look inside the man's brain and and pain and trauma. Cool stuff!

Short and Sweet

Sebastian Mathews did a great job making his book come alive in audio. Two thumbs up.

Really Great

Personal, dark and intense. The author pulls no punches talking about his grizzly car crash. Well worth the credit.

Good Poems

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As far as poetry audiobooks go, this is a good one. Simple, moving and entertaining too.