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    Sum

    By Zachariah Wells

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    "A poet of direct speech and muscular lexicon."Quill & Quire

    Nimbly slipping between personae, masks, and moods, the prosody-driven poems of Sum weigh the volatility and mutability of the self against the forces of habit, instinct, and urge. With homages to Hopkins, Graves, Wislawa Szymborska, Paul Muldoon, and more, and in allusion-dappled, playfully sprung stanzas, this third book from poet and critic Zachariah Wells both wears its influences openly and spins a sound texture all its own, in a collection far greater than its parts.

    Zachariah Wells is the author of two collections of poetry and a book of criticism (Career Limiting Moves, 2014).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBiblioasis
    Release dateApr 15, 2015
    ISBN9781771960311
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      Sum - Zachariah Wells

      SUMfront.jpgSUMacknowledgements.jpg

      Copyright © Zachariah Wells, 2015

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher or a license from The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). For an Access Copyright license visit www.accesscopyright.ca or call toll free to 1-800-893-5777.

      first edition

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Wells, Zachariah, 1976-, author

      Sum / Zachariah Wells.

      Poems.

      Issued in print and electronic formats.

      ISBN 978-1-77196-030-4 (pbk.).--ISBN 978-1-77196-031-1 (ebook)

      I. Title.

      PS8645.E458S94 2015 C811’.6 C2014-907963-X

      C2014-907964-8

      Biblioasis acknowledges the ongoing financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, the Canada Book Fund; and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Arts Council and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

      Edited by Carmine Starnino

      Copy-edited by Emily Donaldson

      Typeset and designed by Kate Hargreaves

      for Rachel

      Each of us is various, many people, a prolixity of selves. Which is why the person who disdains his world is not the same as the person who rejoices or suffers because of his world. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people, thinking and feeling differently.

      —Fernando Pessoa/Bernardo Soares

      EGO

      I am the lord, the thief

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