LIGHT WIND LIGHT LIGHT - Softcover

"Engaging a childhood among rivers, Ramke takes steps into the riverlike world at large, and then turns to (or hopes for) metamorphosis. Ramke's latest deals with memory as fluid, transitory, and illuminating."--Alex Crowley "Publishers Weekly" (1/1/2017 12:00:00 AM) "In this book, Ramke marshals theorems and axioms and philosophic thought to get at questions of inheritance and identity, not as intellectual ballast but as a means to shape his materials into significant forms. He transitions his musings into near treatises on the exchange of matter and energy: "when I hear a policeman speak / from above and understand / the sound of rotors; the traffic / noise has its own grammar / syntactical energy dispensing / the wisdom of wind."--Major Jackson, Academy of American Poets "Publishers Weekly" (1/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)

LIGHT WIND LIGHT LIGHT engages a childhood among rivers, takes steps into the river-like world at large, and then turns to (hopes for) metamorphosis. Transitions are marked with primitive signs, such as the visual dimensions of number-a concern that keeps arising as the poems ask how abstractions differ from matter. Light and transparency figure in every poem in this book, while the book as a whole deals with memory as fluid, transitory, illuminating. An illusion.