This chapbook starts by directly addressing humankind's connection to the vastness of outer space, and sets forth the premise that death (as a permanent state of being) is of the same substance, or soul, as whatever exists outside of the Universe.
It then veers off on a tangent into stranger territory, and talks of unnamed worlds, without life yet possessed by some unliving, sentient force, whose spheres have drifted to the most distant regions of outer space; or, more properly, into the nothingness that reigns illimitably outside of space, where it has been speculated that no laws of nature can exist.
Gigantic, otherworldly graves abound in rhyming descriptions of lifeless geographies.
Monuments, catacombs and buildings, all deserted and of unknown origin, are lyrically narrated into existence deep beneath the surface of the Earth, as well as on and under the surfaces of distant asteroids.
Alien cenotaphs resembling something Hugh Ferriss might have sketched from a fever dream are articulated through regular, metered verse.
A sinister thread connecting all these massive structures with the aforementioned sentient force, which we are told holds all life and death in its grip, runs through the poems.
Hymns to the universe in all its barrenness are juxtaposed with landscapes of horror, all elegantly unscrolled in lurid poetics that are made all the more disturbing by their intentional symmetry.
The final poem seems to be a negation of itself, plus all of the other poems in the volume.
The book ends with several prose statements of a negative nature concerning the fate of humanity in the Universe.
Odysseus, in Homer's Odyssey, plays upon his name-Ou-d is/Ou-tis meaning no-one/no-thing-in order, through nomenclatural disorder (or rather: division, divergence), to outwit and outwitness the Cyclops, a creature of singular vision and ultimately also of unbounded blindness.
Oude s, in the spiral consilience, sings a similar siren-song and sets out on a similar voyage, albe.
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