Pen and Anvil Press - Homepage Pen and Anvil
Home Catalogue About the Press
Submit Contact Us The Ampersand blog
 
“Some Problems With Love”
by Zachary Bos
// published in Mar 2013
// sale price $1.85
// poetry
<< download as a PDF
<< back to the catalogue
by Zachary Bos // a Pen & Anvil chapbook
Zachary Bos

Zachary Bos studied poetry in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University. He directs the publishing activities of the Boston Poetry Union.

// He can be be found on Twitter as @zakbos.

“... What would out in knowing/ whether it was love? That arresting word/ is no use to me. The accusation/ was faithlessness, not unfeeling.”

// from the sonnet "Duplicitous"

In this zuihitsu, a set of loosely-connected sonnets, quoted verse, accounts of dreams, and philosophical notes is pulled together in the rough shape of a poetic essay. The word “I” comprises fully 3% of the text; the word “love,” 2%; and “you,” 1%.

The author prefaces the work with a caveat against definitive interpretation: “I’m dumping the bucket of parts out upon the tabletop. What a clatter they make. [...] This essay is not a confessional record of my personal thoughts on love; it is a fiction. However, it does makes use of truths belonging to me.”

Ordering information

To request one or more copies of this title, please contact the Pen & Anvil Press so that we can make arrangements for payment and delivery. You can reach us via the good folks at the Boston Poetry Union, at 139 Mt. Vernon Street, Fitchburg MA 01420. If you don’t have a stamp, feel free to send us an email.