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Multiversal, Paperback / softback Book

Multiversal Paperback / softback

Part of the Poets Out Loud series

Paperback / softback

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Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award in PoetryWinner of the Poets Out Loud PrizeMultiversal, the second book by Amy Catanzano proposing a theory of quantum poetics, invites readers to explore the intersections between language, nature, science, and consciousness.

Multiversal takes its name from the “multiverse,” a science fiction concept that has become an accepted theory in physics.

It suggests that reality comprises multiple dimensions in space and time.

In form and content, this collection takes novel approaches to the materiality of language itself, to the spacetime of poems. From the Foreword by Michael Palmer: Amy Catanzano offers us a poetic vision of multiple orders and multiple forms, of a fluid time set loose from linearity and an open space that is motile and multidimensional.

The work exists at once in a future-past and in a variety of temporal modes.

At one moment the scale is intimate, at another infinite.

She interrogates our means of observation and measurement (the telescope, the ice-core), our mappings, our cosmic calculations, our assumptions about cause and effect.

In the background, “there is a war being fought,” though which of many wars—cultural, scientific, military—we are not told.

In a time of displacement such as ours, she seems to say, in place of “universals” we must imagine “multiversals,” in place of the fixed, the metamorphic.

As much as the frame may be cosmic (micro- or macro-), it is important to remember that the work serves the vital questions of the hereand-now, “the flowering of the world,” the corrosiveness of violence, the primacy of desire, the necessity of wonder.

Multiversal represents an effort to see things as they are through an act of poetic reimagining, that is, to see variously within the folds and fields of the actual, where the physis, or life force, resides.

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