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COMING AUGUST 10! Pre-order now through August 1 with free US shipping, using discount code LIVING at checkout.
In this thrilling, eloquent, and compulsively readable collection of essays, And Living Things Too, David Weiss brilliantly illuminates and explores the very nature of poetry and storytelling in all its uncanny achievements and wildly wounded strengths. Drawing on examples from the writings of Dickinson, Ammons, Keats, Carruth, Wordsworth, Chekov and others, these strikingly aphoristic essays do what they so vividly show Dickinson’s poems to have done—they enable us, as readers, to see freshly with “our unfurnished eyes.” Here are discussions of how poems “must heal or lessen the insufficiency of language by means of the insufficiency of language; of how “the poem is an anodyne that does not take away pain,” and of how the short poem in particular is “like catching a glimpse of a whale’s curved back cresting the surface.” In essay after essay, insights and adventurous investigations abound. I read it from cover to cover and could not put it down.
—Laurie Sheck, author of Captivity and A Monster’s Notes
ISBN 979-8-9853587-9-7
2026$20.00David Weiss has published six collections of poetry, most recently Little Mirror (Lynx House) and No Tomorrow (Tiger Bark Press), three novels, The Mensch, Cry Baby and Do Us Part and four crime novels, the Ditch Witch series.
COMING AUGUST 10! Pre-order now through August 1 with free US shipping, using discount code LIVING at checkout.
In this thrilling, eloquent, and compulsively readable collection of essays, And Living Things Too, David Weiss brilliantly illuminates and explores the very nature of poetry and storytelling in all its uncanny achievements and wildly wounded strengths. Drawing on examples from the writings of Dickinson, Ammons, Keats, Carruth, Wordsworth, Chekov and others, these strikingly aphoristic essays do what they so vividly show Dickinson’s poems to have done—they enable us, as readers, to see freshly with “our unfurnished eyes.” Here are discussions of how poems “must heal or lessen the insufficiency of language by means of the insufficiency of language; of how “the poem is an anodyne that does not take away pain,” and of how the short poem in particular is “like catching a glimpse of a whale’s curved back cresting the surface.” In essay after essay, insights and adventurous investigations abound. I read it from cover to cover and could not put it down.
—Laurie Sheck, author of Captivity and A Monster’s Notes
ISBN 979-8-9853587-9-7
2026$20.00David Weiss has published six collections of poetry, most recently Little Mirror (Lynx House) and No Tomorrow (Tiger Bark Press), three novels, The Mensch, Cry Baby and Do Us Part and four crime novels, the Ditch Witch series.
