(Ebook) Multiversal (Poets Out Loud) by Amy Catanzano ISBN 9780823230068, 9780823230075, 0823230066, 0823230074

(Ebook) Multiversal (Poets Out Loud) by Amy Catanzano ISBN 9780823230068, 9780823230075, 0823230066, 0823230074

Catanzano offers 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 place of "universals," she seems to say, we must imagine "multiversals," in place of the fixed, the metamorphic. 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.