Roundness of the Possible

<p>In dazzling poetic valedictions <em>Roundness of the Possible </em>explores cosmic evanescence and liminality. Jose? Enrique Delmonte's poems (translated superbly by Shira Zohara Dickey) are extraordinary expressions of embodied consciousness and ecopoetics. In these poems haunting lines such as left- handed bees dream of right-handed futures and a placid whisper slows down the clocks remind us to appreciate the beauty of transience and the sublimity of the natural world. -Cassandra Atherton</p><p></p><p>Once there was the world / then there was uncertainty writes Jose? Enrique Delmonte in these cerebral poems translated impeccably by Shira Zohara Dickey. Here readers are treated to the music of thinking to poetry about thought abstractions essences that never shy too far from the conventional matter of poetry the stuff of the senses. Hence this is a very satisfying read appealing both to the philosopher and the sensualist in us. </p><p>-Indran Amirthanayagam</p><p></p><p>In the poem that opens this extraordinary collection of lyrics Delmonte offers a sense of his poetics. Imminences proposes not just an inspiritness in the things of the world but also in language chaos and wonder; hence throughout his work there is an ease in which image passes into image abstractionemotionand thought. Cosmoscaterpillarjasmineaplausible infinite closeness and his roundness of the possible exist together-exist perhaps through each other. You can hear Nerval's sense of unity here as well as Lorca's mystery and Alberti's complexities. -Michael Anania </p><p></p>