Modern Love: Songs

Author: Thomas Meyer

Publisher: Verge Books (2018)

Recitative is speaking. Song is repeating.

With this enigmatic declaration, Thomas Meyer begins Modern Love: Songs, rewriting Dante’s Vita Nuova for a new age. “Song,” declares the poet, “go find Love / and have him take you / to my love and sing / my praises.” In these songs, Meyer manifests anew his protean masteries in a series of sonnets and prose ruminations that attest to the powers of new love in later life. “Something woke up deep inside me,” telling the poet, “Watch, wait, when / I arrive I will look like Spring.”