Nimbly slipping between personae, masks, and moods, theprosody-driven poems of Sum weigh the volatility and mutabilityof the self against the forces of habit, instinct and urge. With homagesto Hopkins, Graves, Wislawa Szymborska, Paul Muldoon, and more, and in allusion-dappled, playfully sprung stanzas, thisthird book from poet and critic Zachariah Wells both wears itsinfluences openly and spins a sound texture all its own, in a collectionfar greater than its parts. | Sum by Zachariah Wells, Paperback | Indigo Chapters