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 searches for meaning in the temporal moments of life that often go unexplored, ignored or forgotten. Waiting for Word is as deep a collection of poetry you will come across.
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I've kept this slim volume of Mr. Adler's poetry very close to me for quite a while, reading it over and again, here and there ... always knowing my understanding combined with his unique and sincere poetic vision always was almost like a sacrament of words, maybe perhaps even a blessing of expansion, after expansion,, after expansion. A healing?
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I have no ear for the young words
all buff and shiny and not a thing to say at the bar.
Let me hear them spoken around the block
at time or two, their vowels longing for consonance
what gives the meaning -- prefix of desire
suffix of regret -- inflected now only by time
the history of their enunciation
deeper than any beginning I can know.
from "A Lexicology of the Middle Years"Poet. Storyteller. Dramatist. Essayist. Artificer.
