The Ars Magna for the Manifold Dimensions of z

Daring and brilliant Neil De La Flors latest book The Ars Magna for the Manifold Dimensions of z is a big kick in the rear to absurdist theater. It stars a very tough Meta a member of the Danish underground. If my head had been cut off says Meta you wouldve been next. The book explores parallel worlds that are unaware of the other but are layered on top of each other like minks or foxes wearing stoles and fur coats. Characters pursue each other through five acts a series of emails and an epilogue invoking Minkowskian Spacetime - I wont go there but wow! De la Flor dives deep into meta-Meta-mind. --Terese SvobodaIn The Ars Magna for the Manifold Dimensions of z Neil de la Flor gives us a braided history of the speaker and his beloved Meta. Through found (sometimes redacted text) memory interviews and gorgeous speculation de la Flor conjures a lovingly hybrid picture of Meta and the Danish Underground Resistance during the Holocaust. As the poet learns more about his heritage we as readers learn more about American families and the pasts they carry what our elders have taught us and what has (and perhaps always will) remain a mystery. --Denise Duhamel