Jonathan Wells

Train Dance Jonathan Wells

Train Dance adopts the rhythm and return of the commute through the Hudson Valley into Manhattan as a motif for the echoes of memory and event that contour a life. Reflecting on the place of poetry amid the urban hustle?a way one might ?Carry myself like a tune/ Into the chorus of the city??Wells records a series of linked journeys in which a son comes to understands his mother?s death and writing engraves events in memory, retaining events as locations?station stops, as it were?to which one returns.