Disequilibria

Robert Lunday is a professor of English at Houston Community College. He is also author of Mad Flights and Gnome.

Elliptical prose . . .moving . . .elegiac."--Publishers Weekly "With its arresting catalogue of anecdotes and passages illustrating missingness, Disequilibria captures what it's like to become obsessed with a mystery, as well as what it feels like to get trapped in its labyrinth. But most compellingly, it teaches us that if the grief-stricken can't find out the truth, they can attain solace in the still-present love for those who are gone."--Rigoberto González, author of Abuela in Shadow, Abuela in Light"This haunting, engrossing, superbly written memoir is full of revelations and mysteries: a kind of prose epic of the missing. Chockful of Americana, it is also marbled with uncanny literary references: Robert Lunday seems to have read everything and put it to good use. His intelligence makes this book shine."--Phillip Lopate, author of A Mother's Tale

• Finding; UnderstandingDoublesOraclesRelicsThe AsymptoteParallaxNomads and ExilesIn the CloudThe Middle DistanceFace of ShadowsUroborosThe Sun and IHitchhikeSayabouryI Am the GrassThe Boy Scout HandbookCirclesThe VergeVita ActivaDisequilibriaA Beautiful DeathChinaThe SwerveA Feral PresenceDark HeartThe VortexFlitcraft's FollyWakefieldsThe Circumambient SelfSubterraneanSpirit RadiosLightnessFoolish DreamsOld Soldiers Never DieWorldnessFlying on FumesJuly 3, 1969The EdgeDesert DreamsThe ReturnAcknowledgmentsNotes