Sablier II

Sablier II, a book-length persona poem, is composed of a mix of lyric and narrative passages, rich in rhythm and sound. David Wolf's meditation on being, memory and language ranges from the musical to the critical, from the confessional to the parodic. Sablier II explores the texture of multifarious mindfulness, at once both particular and transcendently human. The sense of consciousness at work in the poem is openly disjunctive, fragmented, characterized by sudden shifts, ludic, multi-registered, though ultimately grounded in the loving acts of attention to this world in all its particular beauty, music, and fleeting, felt presences.