What are the the themes of the book?
The book has a number of counter-pointed thematic strands: remembering and forgetting; loss and compensation; adjusting or maladjusting to the passage of time; friendship and alienation; the experiences of love and the discovery of solitude; beginnings and endings, death and grief the intensity and the numbness they lend to life, the tensions of belief and doubt, and the relation of writing specifically poetry to all of these. Recurring images of snow, flight, sky, weather, song, dance convey the themes. I have a tendency to write companion or response poems to earlier pieces in an effort to create balance and counterpoints.
