What Is Otherwise Infinite by Bianca Stone
Finalist for the New England Book Award in Poetry and the Vermont Book Award
As heard on NPR Morning Edition
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2022
A searching, startling new collection of poems from the author of The Möbius Strip Club of Grief and Someone Else’s Wedding Vows
- Sale Date
- ISBN
- 9781953534057
- Page Count
- 128
- Language
- English
- Imprint
- Tin House
Meet the Author
Bianca Stone
Finalist for the New England Book Award in Poetry and the Vermont Book Award
As heard on NPR Morning Edition
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2022
A searching, startling new collection of poems from the author of The Möbius Strip Club of Grief and Someone Else’s Wedding Vows
Written in four sections with incisive and vivid lyrical language, Bianca Stone’s What Is Otherwise Infinite considers how we find our place in the world through themes of philosophy, religion, environment, myth, and psychology. “I deal only in the hardest pain-revivers, symbols and tongues,” writes Stone. “I want to tell you only / in the intimacy of our discomfort.”
Populated by Archangels, limping in paradise; by allergies of the soul; the intimacy and danger of motherhood; psychic wounds; and dirty, dirty chocolate layer cake, What Is Otherwise Infinite deftly examines our inherent and inherited ideas of how to live, and the experience of the Self—which on one hand is so intensely personal, and on the other, universal.
As heard on NPR Morning Edition
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2022
A searching, startling new collection of poems from the author of The Möbius Strip Club of Grief and Someone Else’s Wedding Vows
Written in four sections with incisive and vivid lyrical language, Bianca Stone’s What Is Otherwise Infinite considers how we find our place in the world through themes of philosophy, religion, environment, myth, and psychology. “I deal only in the hardest pain-revivers, symbols and tongues,” writes Stone. “I want to tell you only / in the intimacy of our discomfort.”
Populated by Archangels, limping in paradise; by allergies of the soul; the intimacy and danger of motherhood; psychic wounds; and dirty, dirty chocolate layer cake, What Is Otherwise Infinite deftly examines our inherent and inherited ideas of how to live, and the experience of the Self—which on one hand is so intensely personal, and on the other, universal.
Praise for What Is Otherwise Infinite
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“Stone's poems reframe the search for meaning by addressing the self-care and self-perfection complex. Because even though it's natural to want to "fix" our lives—sometimes obsessing over our lives can work against us.”
NPR Morning Edition -
“Poems that bounce off ordinary moments to attain something extraordinary.”
The Washington Post, Ron Charles' Book Club -
“Roams in the realm of religion and philosophy.”
The New York Times
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