Combinations of the Universe

“In a book whose subjects range from the high gods of antiquity to the low blows of divorce-spite, and whose strategies move from a seven-line poem about birth to a twenty-page study of contemporary disjunction, Goldbarth expands triumphantly upon his earlier work. For all its lively variety, the book is not so much a collection of separate pieces as a poet’s version of the cutting-edge physicist’s grand attempt to unify the far-flung elements of our human condition.” –From the back cover