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The Jupiter Collisions (Paperback, Main)
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Lachlan Mackinnon's third collection opens with a
characteristically exact account of something ungraspable: a
distant episode in cosmology. This is the starting point for a
series of investigations into the uncertainty and flux, in which
poem after poem brings home its cargo in precisely shaped but
oblique and surprising ways. The collection is as various in its
concerns as it is unified in its search for the close naming of
things. One of the paradoxes of these poems is to start from
spareness and reserve, and to end by establishing an intensely
personal voice, whatever the subject almost casually to hand -
American scences, foreign places, the remembered present of the
1960s, the lives within paintings, and the potentiality of prime
numbers. "The Jupiter Collisions" includes two subtle and
intriguingly constructed sequences of linked poems, in which the
canvas of personal matter (loss, love, contingency) is stretched
across a frame of philosophical concerns, in a poetry which is as
unafraid of thinking - "the heaven of ideas" - as it is firmly
vested in the "pointillisme of what is". We come to recognize a
tone, quietly distinctive, addressing the world in poems which are
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