Livre numérique
Both chronicle and confrontation, the poems of Jacob Scheier's debut work out
and through notions of loss. As the death of a young man's mother instigates
and informs these investigations, the realities of romantic failures become
inextricably connected, and in the process More to Keep Us Warm maps the
limitations, and breaking points, of the human heart. Questioning how and why
we fall in and out of love becomes the collection's haunting refrain. At the
same time, Scheier's poems mourn the absence of both religious and cultural
identity. Facing the painful and confusing losses of his life, the support of
the only "tradition" the writer knows - an atheist, socialist upbringing -
proves unsatisfying. In response, More to Keep Us Warm explores the formation
of a new, complex sense of self as inherited belief systems fail. With humour,
sardonic wit, and conversational charm, this search engages and struggles with
Judeo-Christian tradition to become an intimate meditation on the nature of
God in a secular world.
and through notions of loss. As the death of a young man's mother instigates
and informs these investigations, the realities of romantic failures become
inextricably connected, and in the process More to Keep Us Warm maps the
limitations, and breaking points, of the human heart. Questioning how and why
we fall in and out of love becomes the collection's haunting refrain. At the
same time, Scheier's poems mourn the absence of both religious and cultural
identity. Facing the painful and confusing losses of his life, the support of
the only "tradition" the writer knows - an atheist, socialist upbringing -
proves unsatisfying. In response, More to Keep Us Warm explores the formation
of a new, complex sense of self as inherited belief systems fail. With humour,
sardonic wit, and conversational charm, this search engages and struggles with
Judeo-Christian tradition to become an intimate meditation on the nature of
God in a secular world.
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