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""Provocations"" explores arguments about literary and spiritual Creations, through definitions of selves and others, and the self with others. Questions of resistance and transcendence, both internal and interpersonal, and to the ""facts"" of our existence are addressed throughout. Questions about mortality are the convergent points, ultimately, of the 'provocations' in the self-questioning that is the central thrust of the text.

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PAST PRAISE FOR DAVID SCHLOSS' WORK Sex Lives of the Poor and Obscure: ""David Schloss seems to be reinventing classical forms and meter to speak profound truths on vital issues of our day. But for all this he hasn't lost the cool, calm lyricism of his love poems and quirky meditations on how the world happened to turn out the odd way it did."" -John Ashbery Group Portrait from Hell: David Schloss' is a passionate and harrowing book. At a time when so many poetry books are minimalist reveries, he uses an expansive and highly skilled prosody to create a rich portrait of the whole range of human experience."" - John Koethe Reports from Babylon and Beyond ""David Schloss delivers a blistering ""report"" on disaster and war. This is a monumental and challenging work, wider in scope, yet readers will be pleased that his customary rigor, polish and sometimes strikingly lyrical turns of phrase are in evidence. Reflective and big-hearted as well, they are the work of a mature, passionate, deeply engaged artist."" -Lesley Hardy The Heartbeat is an Ancient Instrument: ""The work is so moving. His meticulous poetic skill is relentless in the service of the heart: [Heartbeat] renders both human grief and joy with grace, intelligence, beauty and wisdom."" -Michael Ryan While impassioned gods cast their eyes over the entire collection, the core is a human-sized trial of long memory, and a tense conversation about a marriage in ruins. This book is a cry in the dark, a calling upon clearly rattled faith... and 'the greater pain of our wandering.' -Erica Reid Heartbeat is the work of a poet at the height of technical mastery, with an unerring sense of line, deceptively effortless musicality, and an uncanny ability to stick-the-landing. -Geoffrey Woolf

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David Schloss was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Columbia University, the University of Southern California Cinema School, Brooklyn College (BA), and the Iowa Writers Workshop (MFA). He taught at the University of Cincinnati and Miami University (Ohio) from which he retired as Emeritus Professor of English in December, 2014. He has published five full-length poetry collections: The Beloved (Ashland Poetry Press, 1973), Sex Lives of the Poor and Obscure, (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2001), Group Portrait from Hell (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009), REPORTS FROM BABYLON AND BEYOND (Dos Madres Press), 2015), THE HEARTBEAT AS AN ANCIENT INSTRUMENT (Dos Madres Press, 2020; plus three chapbooks, Legends (The Windmill Press, 1976), Greatest Hits (Pudding House Press, 2004), Behind the Eyes (Dos Madres Press 2005), as well as scores of poems in literary journals and anthologies over the years.

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