insecurity--were the very things he used to mold us into his image

meet by accident under a pomegranate tree

Standards like pasta

and his pompous narrator Dr

One tiny cell

Dear Dad: Famous People's Loving Letters to Their Fathers Drawing Instruction insecurity--were the very things heDear Dad, is a diarylike collection of brief letters written to Luoma's father, who is struggling with a stroke and impending death. The fifty entries, each beginning with "Dear Dad," tell Luoma's father's story as a series of remembered events, providing intimate details of a life and death. Luoma's work spans narrative autobiography, lyric poetry, visual poetry, and sound poetry.