Per Diem - David Weiss
In the tradition of Robert Frost and Hayden Carruth, the poems in Per Diem find their objective correlatives in the cares of living in the farm world and topographies of upstate New York. At once down to earth and metaphysical, intense, speculative, and rooted in human struggles, Per Diem chronicles in an intimate way the weather systems of work and aspiration, of mortality and wonder, regret and disappointment, in a language that's close to the bone and idiomatic as a snow squall or a fence rail.
ISBN 97817329012232019$16.95DAVID WEISS has published four 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), 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.
