Divine Ratios

The reach of <i>Divine Ratios</i> is global ranging from Tang Dynasty China and the Florentine Renaissance to contemporary Baltimore post-World War II Berlin and the landscapes of the Mountain West. The speed and mobility evoked in this new collection by Jacqueline Osherow are not only physical--a traveler's movement in a crowded thrilling world--but imaginative and its poetic idiom is no less varied as a breezy conversational tone serves as a counterpoint to traditional form. With striking juxtapositions of natural and cultural wonders this enrapturing volume asks what is the right proportion--or ratio--for living in a world of such splendors horrors and possibilities?