What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems - Paperback

by Bianca Stone (Author)

Finalist for the New England Book Award in Poetry and the Vermont Book Award

As heard on NPR Morning Edition

A New York Public Library Best Book of 2022

A searching, startling new collection of poems from the author of The Möbius Strip Club of Grief and Someone Else's Wedding Vows

Written in four sections with incisive and vivid lyrical language, Bianca Stone's What Is Otherwise Infinite considers how we find our place in the world through themes of philosophy, religion, environment, myth, and psychology. "I deal only in the hardest pain-revivers, symbols and tongues," writes Stone. "I want to tell you only / in the intimacy of our discomfort."

Populated by Archangels, limping in paradise; by allergies of the soul; the intimacy and danger of motherhood; psychic wounds; and dirty, dirty chocolate layer cake, What Is Otherwise Infinite deftly examines our inherent and inherited ideas of how to live, and the experience of the Self--which on one hand is so intensely personal, and on the other, universal.

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Written in four sections with incisive and vivid language, Bianca Stone's What is Otherwise Infinite considers how we find our place in the world through themes of philosophy, religion, environment, myth, and addiction. "Some days," writes Stone, "I get up to go for a run / but instead just sit in spandex / and write about the fog."

Populated by Archangels, limping in paradise; by allergies of the soul; a daughter's cut fingernails; psychic wounds; and dirty, dirty chocolate layer cake, Stone's is a collection that deftly examines our inherent and inherited ideas of how to live, and the experience of the Self--which on one hand is so intensely personal, and on the other, universal.

Author Biography

Bianca Stone is the author of The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018), Someone Else's Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014), and Poetry Comics from the Book of Hours (Pleiades Press, 2016). She lives with her husband, the poet Ben Pease, and their daughter, Odette, in Goshen, Vermont.