Consolations II
Ordinary words taken one at a time by a poet rather than a lexicographer, and found to mean something considerably harder.
A second volume of short essays taking ordinary words seriously, one at a time, and finding that most of them mean something more difficult than we assume. Whyte works as a poet rather than a lexicographer, so the definitions arrive as invitations rather than as settlements of anything.
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Maria Popova
This secret Promethean power of burnout is what poet and philosopher David Whyte explores in one of the short, searching essays collected in his Consolations II — the continuation of his earlier emotional dictionary defining the deeper and often ineffable meanings of everyday words, which was among my favorite books of the year.
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