Thomas Meyer

Modern Love: Songs Thomas Meyer

Poetry. Recitative is speaking. Song is repeating. With this enigmatic declaration, Thomas Meyer begins MODERN LOVE: SONGS, rewriting Dante's Vita Nuova for a new age. Song, declares the poet, go find Love / and have him take you / to my love and sing / my praises. In these songs, Meyer manifests anew his protean masteries in a series of sonnets and prose ruminations that attest to the powers of new love in later life. Something woke up deep inside me, telling the poet, Watch, wait, when / I arrive I will look like Spring.