Sign Language for the Death of Reason Gavin Pretor-Pinney letter-writer and amateur detective -

letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends

cry with you

a clear and relaxed mind

the damage it does us and the possible cures

Sign Language for the Death of Reason Gavin Pretor-Pinney letter-writer and amateur detective -Sign Language for the Death of Reason tries to make sense of a post traumatic life in poems that are mesmerising in their beauty and stark truthfulness. Sign Language is Linda Collinss poetic response to her memoir, Loss Adjustment, about the death by suicide of her daughter, Victoria. Set in a dreamy state of irrationality and unreality, where nothing is certain and yet, hope of certainty persists, a narrator who could be Collins, and a persona who