{"product_id":"multiversal-9780823230068","title":"Multiversal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN USA Literary Award in Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Poets Out Loud Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMultiversal\u003c\/i\u003e,  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Foreword by Michael Palmer: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmy  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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amy Catanzano","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48282462814459,"sku":"9780823230068","price":61.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_4fa12570-c098-452c-baf4-f5087d716989.jpg?v=1778613540","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/multiversal-9780823230068","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}