The Great Wheel: Zero the Un-naming

Kinnear charts the map from Herakleitos to Pound Freud to Derrida Celan Rilke Joyce. This is a text like no other divining the naming and un-naming of things from zero through infinity in the way of the philosopher-poets. Alternating contemplations on immensities with crystalline poems that begin each chapter spoked with Kinnears translations of Heraclitus and spun with the dreams of memory its a book to reach for again and again. We journey through memory/dream chance/love sleep/death reason/no-reason meaning/unmeaning Khora at the gates of the unsayable vast as the cosmos she can contain. This book is not so much a statement about where poetry comes from as it is an inside-view of poetry becoming itself happening now unfolding on the page before us. No doubt the Pre-Socratic [Herakleitos] would be proud to chop logic with the author and sing his praises for this astonishing new work says author Susan Lynch. Kinnear was the winner of Fine Madness 2003 Nelson Bentley prize. He is the author of A Walk in Bardo (Blue Begonia Press 2008) Heart Range (Raven Chronicles) Shale Eyes and My Fathers House (Taurolog 2012 and 2014).