Description
IN THE WORLD ENORMOUS is a collection of poems engaged in transition, conversation and what transforms. Focused on a time that beginning shortly before the death of Tomer Inbar’s mother and ending after the birth of his twin daughters, these poems constitute a thinking out of and about passing and starting, in plangent energy and restless balances finding words simultaneous to a human intimacy and intensity. In part informed by his study of early Japanese literature, Inbar is open to these poems being objectively read from bottom up or top down, moving this way or that, forward and back—though in one totality presence inscribes and finds you. Inbar writes, “I find comfort in being present as things move. With sibilance. On their own volition. Taking the qualities of their construction along.” These poems moreover seem to compel us to think an impossible thought.
