Train Dance
Four Way Books, 2011
Paper: 978-1-935536-14-7
Library of Congress Classification PS3623.E4695T73 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
Paper: 978-1-935536-14-7
Library of Congress Classification PS3623.E4695T73 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Train Dance adopts the rhythm and return of the commute through the Hudson Valley into Manhattan as a motif for the echoes of memory and event that contour a life. Reflecting on the place of poetry amid the urban hustle—a way one might “Carry myself like a tune/ Into the chorus of the city”—Wells records a series of linked journeys in which a son comes to understands his mother’s death and writing engraves events in memory, retaining events as locations—station stops, as it were—to which one returns.
