Other People's Troubles `

The son of a Holocaust survivor, Jason Sommer writes of troubles which unfold in history and in the making of personality; of self and other; and of wakefulness and sleep. The poetic voice is of one who emerges from the Holocaust, telling the stories of those who suffered. Son of a Holocaust survivor, Jason Sommer writes of troubles that unfold at the intersection of history made and personality in making, of self and other, of wakefulness and sleep. His world is post-Holocaust, and the poetic voice in this book is one which emerges from that calamity, telling the stories of those who have finally begun to speak to him, and now through him. As a survivor's child, Sommer must consider how to live in the wake of history, among those who are indelibly marked by it.