A Warring Absence

It then moves to the point of first decline, when Dylan comes home drunk with one arm broken and learns that their furniture has just been repossessed

There are no more publishers' advances and no more resources, so he decides on "one last pillaging of America." This time Caitlin insists on going with him "Where?" "To the States." "Yes, the United ones." because she has discovered some love letters from a woman Dylan met on his last trip state side

We follow them through an abortion, through drunken bouts in the States, and finally to his final collapse at a poetry reading. Back aboard ship, Caitlin reads the last poem and silently closes the casket