"Trimmed like a sail toward its own origin, Esse rings with a spare precision."
Book Description
David Mutschlecner's poetry embraces the moments in a daily worklife that permit entry into a complex of meditations on the largest and most unanswerable questions—into a private philosophical world that coexists with the everyday. As he draws on the works and visions of contemporary visual artists, the literary troves of Dickinson and Dante, the innocently profound questions of children, Mutschlecner crafts an approach to the infinity surrounding, but also within, each individual. Esse claims for poetry a way to explore beyond the end-limits of occurrence, toward something/ whose amplitude/ does not imply/ vagueness, but concision/ and clarity: light/ in the fissures, light/ in the gold-flecked clefts of the hills.
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