The Meaning of Life and Other Poems

About the Book

The book consists of forty-four mostly metered and rhymed poems, each of which is accompanied by an image related to the theme of the poem. The overall theme of the book is a question: What is the significance of life for a thinking being aware of having but a brief moment of a nearly incomprehensible span of time in this tiny spot of an almost unfathomably immense universe? What better way to contemplate the question than through the exercise of one’s imagination.

About the Author

Thomas Kleven is a professor at Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston, Texas, where he has taught for forty-three years. He is a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School. He has spent much of his life wondering about the meaning of life. Although it’s still a mystery to him, he hopes these poems will help shed some light on the matter.