The Ideation

Poetry. "You are in the quadrant of beasts." So opens the poetic terrain Phillip Foss excavates in The Ideation, a book rich in the rituals of the instant in which past, present, and future conspire "to render a cartography of the universe." And it's a particularly feral universe these poems map, one where "antlers index ascension into vocabularies of sensation." These poems enact a mutating world of constant becoming-other presided over by unforeseen seizures of land and mind. Foss is the author of nine collections of poetry, including The Composition of Glass, Courtesan of Seizure, and Chromatic Defacement.