Skiing with Dostoyevsky

This volume brings together pieces from David Axelrod's previous nine collections along with thirty-two brilliant new poems--the whole a kind of symphonic effort to clarify the unity of consciousness, water, wind, and stone--all life, in fact, and the planet itself. These poems are powerful meditations. To read them is to enter into an act of praise driven by intelligence and an unfailingly accurate ear for what might be called the melody of meaning.