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"A poet of direct speech and muscular lexicon."Quill & Quire
Nimbly slipping between personae, masks, and moods, the prosody-driven poems of Sum weigh the volatility and mutability of the self against the forces of habit, instinct, and urge. With homages to Hopkins, Graves, Wislawa Szymborska, Paul Muldoon, and more, and in allusion-dappled, playfully sprung stanzas, this third book from poet and critic Zachariah Wells both wears its influences openly and spins a sound texture all its own, in a collection far greater than its parts.
Zachariah Wells is the author of two collections of poetry and a book of criticism (Career Limiting Moves, 2014).
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Sum - Zachariah Wells
Copyright © Zachariah Wells, 2015
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Wells, Zachariah, 1976-, author
Sum / Zachariah Wells.
Poems.
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for Rachel
Each of us is various, many people, a prolixity of selves. Which is why the person who disdains his world is not the same as the person who rejoices or suffers because of his world. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people, thinking and feeling differently.
—Fernando Pessoa/Bernardo Soares
EGO
I am the lord, the thief