Seeing the Dead is a fiercely intimate, darkly funny, and unsparingly lucid collection in which Tony Trigilio maps the psychic terrain of grief, American precarity, conspiracy culture, and the fragile rituals that hold a life together. Moving through childhood memories, Rust Belt landscapes, pandemic dread, vertigo episodes, political hauntings, and the spectral presence of lost parents, Trigilio writes with a diaristic clarity that feels both confessional and investigative. The book’s three-part structure becomes a kind of séance: poems that witness the dead, interrogate the living, and rehearse personal and collective endings. With its blend of narrative candor, cultural critique, and ghost-lit lyricism, Seeing the Dead offers readers a deeply human portrait of survival in a world where memory, fear, and tenderness collide.