Searching out troubling dualities, paradoxes, and dislocations that mark people's lives, this collection of poems explores the borders between human and cosmic spheres, life and art, the organic and the technological, the secular and the spiritual. Common ground is turned up in unexpected places. The edgework of these poems marks a willingness to quibble. By turns impassiones, elegiac, and tounge-in-cheek, the volume confronts the reader with the world's uncertainties and disorder. At the same time, it imagines ways of mending hurt, tracking the struggle to love expansively in diminishing space.

Damian Walford Davies and Richard Marggraf Turley are writers.