“The Resurrection Appearances: Fragments of a Daybook”

My memoir, The Resurrection Appearances: Fragments of a Daybook, is available through Gold Line Press after winning their 2022 Nonfiction Chapbook Contest. You can order it from Gold Line here.

Judge Sarah Minor, author of Slim Confessions and Bright Archive writes: “Through a series of short, lyric entries, Jay Aquinas Thompson records the loss of their beloved Patty, a mother like ‘a brittle blade-edge,’ who worked as a psychiatric nurse, loved film, and sometimes had both ‘a beautiful singing voice’ and a hundred-dollar bottle of rum. The Resurrection Appearances: Fragments of a Daybook builds a spiritual tractatus in the voice of a poet who played caregiver to a caregiver. Each entry offers a sense of beginning again—a new way to parse a parent’s death alongside the life she lived and the possible ways to live afterwards. Thompson returns consistently to the question ‘Where do you find faith?’ while gesturing toward the answer in images, meditations, and confessions that offer us ‘a momentary sense of the universe’s scale.'”