Waiting for Word

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Hints of modernist liminality take us through the collection, with the simultaneously tragic and cosmically silly meditation of “If I Were You,” on never fully being able to know what it is to be someone else, to the subjectivity of the poem “Infinite Nocturne,” which journeys through familial connectedness and ends on a cliff: “… the stars: how they are the same stars: which lives: /  in the night: in the deep: endless loop: music from: hearts of.” This lover of words, epitomized in the Joycean wordplay in “The Words,” reassures us that to live is to yearn. If desire is the root of human suffering, in Adler’s hands we discover that our suffering is not in vain.

--Carol Rial, writer and professor of English

Jay explores a myriad of themes that focus on family, the past, the quality of experience and the meaning of life. It’s a collection not only of a life well travelled but the sum total of what that life adds up to. The author s…