A Sum of Destructions: Poems - Hardcover
The title of Theodore Weiss's thirteenth book of poetry, A Sum of Destructions, expresses the paradox that informs the collection. Our lives inevitably sustain losses small and large. The more given, the more losable. However, we experience our gifts perhaps best, certainly most poignantly, in their loss. Against the backdrop of destruction, these poems propose the grand total to which our gifts add up.
"Fractions" directly reflects the volume's theme. Emphasizing the root of its title - fracture, brokenness - the poem at the same time celebrates the recovery we can enjoy - through feeling, thoughts, words - of things broken or lost.
With ardent cadence of thought and word, Weiss explores the human and natural conditions. Attending to his own moods, feelings, and ideas, he also confronts the predicaments of others in their search for basic identity.
Language itself - its resources, private lights, and profound interplay with our lives - no less engages him. He witnesses our reliance on that language as well as the frustrations and confusions in which it often embroils us.
Through a voice filled with awe, a summation of our lives, however fragile, is Weiss's gift to us.
"Fractions" directly reflects the volume's theme. Emphasizing the root of its title - fracture, brokenness - the poem at the same time celebrates the recovery we can enjoy - through feeling, thoughts, words - of things broken or lost.
With ardent cadence of thought and word, Weiss explores the human and natural conditions. Attending to his own moods, feelings, and ideas, he also confronts the predicaments of others in their search for basic identity.
Language itself - its resources, private lights, and profound interplay with our lives - no less engages him. He witnesses our reliance on that language as well as the frustrations and confusions in which it often embroils us.
Through a voice filled with awe, a summation of our lives, however fragile, is Weiss's gift to us.
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Theodore Weiss is emeritus professor of English and creative writing at Princeton University.
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- PublisherLouisiana State University Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0807119326
- ISBN 13 9780807119327
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages96
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