The mind is made / of pleasures and / uncertainty, inviting / as it
yearns to be both / puzzle and adversity Full of philosophical
digressions, questions, and answers, Knots forms a series of cyclical
narrations, a kind of verbal asymmetry or mathematician's knot,
continuously mirroring its ideas and subject matter in a play of
language and contrasting points of view. Flight of the Mind & Measure of
the Stars sets an itinerary and series of proposed directions for the
book, its poems introducing the mind in action, laying down themes of
art and memory, reason and belief, intimacy and desire. The final
sections are composed of verses that can also be read as parts of two
longer, interconnected poems. The Occupied Mind enticingly pulls us
deeper into philosophical questions and answers about the needs of the
mind and the ambiguities of love. The central conceit of Minutes offers
sixty meditations that are both a measure of time and testimony, as well
as a witnessing and confession of what takes place within a changing
relationship. Confronting the riddles and dualities of mind and heart,
Knots provokes a layered interplay of reason, paradox, code, and cipher
from our daily thinking and feeling. Actively engaging with the spoken
strategies of thought, the nature of art, and our always unpredictable,
evolving experience of love, we quickly discover the mind and heart are
rarely what we expect.
