Through a variety of subjects, and through styles ranging from rhyme and meter to prose poetry, Morri Creech takes an unflinching look at what it means to live in the shadow of the end, the common fate to which each of us is sentenced.

In The Sentence, Morri Creech interrogates our daily lives and experiences to examine the anxieties and despair that often attend our awareness of mortality. Through a variety of subjects, and through styles ranging from rhyme and meter to prose poetry, he takes an unflinching look at what it means to live in the shadow of the end, the common fate to which each of us is sentenced.