Inspired by a voracious curiosity about humans and other subjects, the poems in Heather Christle's What Is Amazing describe and invent worlds in an attempt to understand through participation.
The book draws upon the wisdom of foolishness and the logic of glee, while simultaneously exploring the suffering inherent to embodied consciousness.
Speakers play out moments of bravado and fear, love and mortality, disappointment and desire.
They socialize incorrigibly with lakes, lovers, fire, and re.
