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Contrary to what the theologians tell you, Death is not a homecoming but a condition from which the recovery rate is by all accounts alarmingly low. That's why most humans will definitely find a need for Be Wary of the Elderly - a summa of poems by award-winning novelist, poet, playwright, and proud seminary drop-out Allan Appel. Be Wary of the Elderly is lifelong reportage from the struggle between sun and shadow, epiphany and its opposite. Like the 17th century metaphysical poets, to whom he seems temperamentally drawn, poems like ""Ukrainian Dream"" and ""Vaccination Sonnet"" are disturbing dispatches from what old people of all ages are thinking but are reluctant to reveal, except right here: An after-action report from the field of love, a manual for the irony of it all, a pandemic post-mortem, a new translation of the silence, and sure, deft previews of the unattainable.

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Allan Appel is a prize-winning novelist and playwright whose books include Club Revelation; High Holiday Sutra, winner of a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award; and The Rabbi of Casino Boulevard, finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. His work has appeared in the National Jewish Monthly, the Progressive, National Lampoon, Tablet, and ARC, and his plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, New Haven, and Provincetown. He has published fourteen books, including eight novels. Appel lives near New Haven, where for the last two decades he has been a staff writer for the online New Haven Independent.

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