Publisher's Synopsis
Exploring the spontaneous interaction of behaviors by which birds flock and fish travel in schools, this collection of poetry sees language as an example of "emergence." These shimmering poems--which attempt to surprise the reader out of familiar ways of understanding nature, mortality, loss, and love--articulate a vast, roving philosophical curiosity channeled through urgent form. Using a voice both sophisticated and simple, forged in unadorned couplets tuned to near-hallucinatory clarity, Carson's poems invent a new way of perceiving, a world where "everything unites, at odds with itself."
