Sisyphus the Completist
By Eric Weiskott
What is left to do at the end of history? Only to begin again, Sisyphus rolling his stone up the side of the same stanza, over and over.
These wry, allusive poems open dialogues with J. M. W. Turner, Vladimir Nabokov, Anne Carson, Gillian Welch, Ben Lerner, and medieval poetry, and cycle with restless ingenuity through forms and topics, searching for perspective “in the slanting evening light / that rakes across one continent then another.”
Eric Weiskott is a poet and scholar. His first book of poetry was Cycle of Dreams (punctum books, 2024). Eric’s poems appear in Cincinnati Review, Fence, Exacting Clam, Texas Review, and Inverted Syntax.