Waking from Myself

Words say too much to let you know the truth. George Quashas torqued, enigmatic proverbs create unlikely balances among discrepant engagements. Waking from Myself is the sixth volume published of George Quashas preverbs, an invented poetic genre thats the flipside of proverbsinstead of giving capsules of wisdom, they awaken language to its inevitable ambiguities in the face of complex truth-telling. The vectors of these marvelous poems work at cross purposes, keeping each other aloft. If William Blakes Proverbs of Hell are poetry, then George Quashas preverbs are like a close cousin. Its core question is: can poetry say the unsayable?