No One Sleeps Tonight - David Weiss
No One Sleeps Tonight is a collection of poems that asks the reader to "listen to your being there." There is a boy kneeling at the foot of a wheelchair to help his grandmother put her feet on the steel plates; there is a man in love with “a dozen of roses” and the phrase “a dozen of roses,” bloodied and beautiful and musical; a speaker searching for a line of poetry, “small night celebrates the great night,” and finding it by not finding it—which is another way of finding the elusive presence, this time through solitude, that ultimate presence. In fact, all of No One Sleeps Tonight is a small life celebrating a great life through a vision that is so deliciously embodied, it makes you want to rip off the covers, get out of bed, naked, thrust open the window, and let all the evenings of your life visit you again and again and again.
— Matthew Lippman
ISBN 979-8-9853587-2-82022$17.95DAVID WEISS has published five previous collections of poems: The Fourth Part of the World (Ohio State University Press), Gnomon (Wolf at the Door Press), Perfect Crime (Nine Mile Books), Per Diem (Tiger Bark Press), Little Mirror (Lynx House Press), and one novel, The Mensch. His essays, translations, and poems have appeared over the years in The Atlantic, Parnassus, The New Yorker, Iowa Review, North American Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Crazyhorse, Ploughshares and Hole in the Head Review, among others. He edited Seneca Review for many years and taught at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
