Provocations

PROVOCATIONS explores arguments about literary and spiritual Creations, through definitions of selves and others, and the self with others. Questions of resistance and transcendence, both internal and interpersonal, and to the "facts" of our existence are addressed throughout. Questions about mortality are the convergent points, ultimately, of the 'provocations' in the self-questioning that is the central thrust of the text."David Schloss seems to be reinventing classical forms and meter to speak profound truths on vital issues of our day. But for all this he hasn't lost the cool, calm lyricism of his love poems and quirky meditations on how the world happened to turn out the odd way it did."--John AshberyPoetry. Read more