Mastering the Dream

Poetry. “Only when The entire world looks different and I will never be able to see the old world again can the speaker of MASTERING THE DREAM maneuver through epistle, poetry, Jewish thought, late-night TV, Plath, tattoo parlors, and a fear of death to begin to answer herself. Reminding us that Information is not knowledge and questioning the boundaries between everything, between fiction and nonfiction, dream and reality, past and future, science and metaphor, she sets a third term between each–poetry, ecstatic vision, present, theology–in order to suggest some preliminary answers: there’s no such thing as either/or: there’s only and & and & and”–Brian Teare.