Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island

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In Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island, award-winning poet Lenore Weiss embodies the themes of loss, transformation and re-invention that are integral to life and to her work. Poems celebrate the author’s Jewish Hungarian upbringing. Survival, negotiation, and migration play a vital role in these poems about family and love.

Technology and its role on relationships is another thread in her work, and Weiss has had practical applications of both during her professional career as a content developer, most recently for Apple Computer. These mysteries of family, politics, and technology build a powerful debut that details one woman’s migrations through life’s spheres and how the connections expand and weave themselves together into one functioning network.

…magnificent. Rarely have I heard such a unique and powerful voice. From perfectly embedding a poem about her mother’s death in a text about attempting to get a service technician to help with a serious computer problem, to poems about relationships, death, survival, and what it means to be a Jew (or anyone deemed different), Weiss turns her experience into a powerful song we can all relate to.”

Margaret Randall

Lenore Weiss lived in Oakland for more than a decade, and now resides in Louisiana. A chapbook, “Tap-Dancing on the Silverado Trail,” was published in 2011. Weiss has also been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Nimrod, Praxis, and others. Weiss was a finalist for the California Writers Exchange Award sponsored by Poets & Writers and a finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize sponsored by Nimrod. Her publications include three chapbooks Business Plan, Sh’ma Yis’rael, and Tap Dancing on the Silverado Trail. Her poems have been widely anthologized most recently in “Bigger Than They Appear,” “Liberty’s Vigil, The Occupy Anthology,” and “Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down.” She also has produced two CDs of spoken word poetry with composer Paul Kirk, “The Cell Phone Poems,” and “Börte’s Perfect Love Song.” Lenore is a former member of the Society for Technical Communication and began the award-winning Technical Literacy Program for the East Bay Chapter. More poems and blogs about the writing life are on her website @ www.lenoreweiss.com.