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 ...
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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.
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1994 Weiss, Theodore A SUM OF DESTRUCTIONS Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1994 1st printing, 101pp, tall 8vo, new softcover,
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Good in Good jacket. Louisiana State University Press, 1994. Signed (by first name only) and inscribed by author on title page; first edition, first printing with full number line; jacket lightly rubbed/faintly soiled, edges lightly bumped, tiny tear to top spine end, faint age-toning to interior top edge; cover lightly rubbed, spine ends lightly rubbed/bumped; ffep has faint erasures; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and clean except as noted. hardcover. Good/Good.
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 101. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered white at the spine. Signed presentation from the author on the title page to fellow poet, Daniel Abse, CBE, FRSL (1923 &endash; 2014) and his wife, "To Dannie and Joan, essential friends and favorite fellow travellers, love Ted." ISBN: 0807119326 Fine in fine dust jacket.
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