The poems in Zachariah Wells' second collection range from childhood to dimly foreseen events in the future; they idle on all three of Canada's coasts, travel the open road, take walks in the city and pause on the banks of country streams and ponds. Using an eclectic array of techniques and forms, from haiku to a crown of sonnets, in a voice that is personal but never private, Wells sketches a fragmentary biography of a life in progress, a study of post-industrial nomadic restlessness in a rootless age. Both elegiac and celebratory, "Track & Trace" considers how we live, how we shape our lives, and how we are eroded and drifted by time and circumstance.
- ISBN13 9781897231586
- Publish Date 29 October 2009 (first published 15 October 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Biblioasis
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 80
- Language English