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“What is the fascination of the unfinished work of art? It is alive. That is because the unfinished is the doorway allowing the spirit of the reader to experience the universe around us and within us. Eleanor Swanson writes in her poem ‘I Love You Says the Heart’, ‘We can come to terms with things that can’t be/seen and reconcile ourselves to the fact that this/need not be tied to a belief in the supernatural...who has seen radio waves’ ... ‘Or the universe itself--/can it be seen?’ These majestic lyric poems introduce us to the infinite depths of ‘a windswept ridge at night with the stars/bright above and I am no longer alone but I waver/and merge with all the shadows that surround me.’ In this unfinished universe, where even the letters of poems are actually ‘the gray italic print of formulas,/galactic dust impressed there...’ with the vastness of the cosmos between that dust these poems are as filled with harmonic motion as the human soul.” —Jared Smith, author of How It Is and Shadows Within the Roaring Fork
“What is the fascination of the unfinished work of art? It is alive. That is because the unfinished is the doorway allowing the spirit of the reader to experience the universe around us and within us. Eleanor Swanson writes in her poem ‘I Love You Says the Heart’, ‘We can come to terms with things that can’t be/seen and reconcile ourselves to the fact that this/need not be tied to a belief in the supernatural...who has seen radio waves’ ... ‘Or the universe itself--/can it be seen?’ These majestic lyric poems introduce us to the infinite depths of ‘a windswept ridge at night with the stars/bright above and I am no longer alone but I waver/and merge with all the shadows that surround me.’ In this unfinished universe, where even the letters of poems are actually ‘the gray italic print of formulas,/galactic dust impressed there...’ with the vastness of the cosmos between that dust these poems are as filled with harmonic motion as the human soul.” —Jared Smith, author of How It Is and Shadows Within the Roaring Fork