Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award in Poetry Winner of the Poets
Out Loud Prize Multiversal, 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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