In the World Enormous is a collection of poems engaged in transition,
conversation and what falls between. They focus on a period that begins
shortly before the death of Tomer Inbar's mother and ends after the
birth of his twin daughters. In this, the poems constitute a way of
thinking out of and about passing and starting again, taking things in
their energy, rhythm and moment, including in words with their
simultaneously infinite, immediate intimacy and enormity. They have a
plangent, even restless, form, with Inbar tellingly indeterminate
regarding the direction in which we read and connect and so being open
to their engagement from bottom up or top down, moving this way and
that, forward and back--though all in one piece. Thought as assemblage
seems to sway to subtleties of moment as a momentum that defines a space
and way to move through, as presence comes together to inscribe sense,
experience or idea. Inbar writes, "These poems like their movement. I
like how these poems move. Apart from the definitional, I find comfort
in being present as things move. With sibilance. On their own volition.
Taking the qualities of their construction along." More perhaps than
this, these poems seem to compel us to think an impossible thought.
