What if all time were present, if that were the ultimate gift of consciousness: to know it and to walk among its phantasms, fears, constructs, contentions, and wild inscrutable junk? Who would even dare to imagine such a result for the human project? William Ryan, that’s who, and he has done it in this magnificent and sinuous sequences in which the poems grow from fourteen line sonnets to sixteen line sonnets and culminate in a Coda of over 300 lines. It is a monumental work of the imagination, all of it delivered in a language of dark and surreal speed that teaches a whole new form of thoughtfulness.
- ISBN10 0899241557
- ISBN13 9780899241555
- Publish Date 25 October 2017
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lynx House Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 70
- Language English