Dewey Edition23
Reviews" God of Nothingness is a folkloric investigation into death and its resounding implications on our humanity and significance." -- The Arkansas International "The superb fourth collection from Wunderlich disarms with its directness, humor, and pathos." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Erotic, folkloric, elegiac, philosophic, aesthetic, lyric, queer and rural and utterly haunted (but without the usual messiness of haunting), Wunderlich transcends downward and takes us with him. . . . I am in love with The God of Nothingness , which is permeated, it turns out, with a majestic somethingness. " --Diane Seuss "Mark Wunderlich's poems are alarmingly wise, lyrically charged, and built out of an almost otherworldly clarity. . . . Wunderlich makes an argument not for beauty but for a clear-eyed resilience. God of Nothingness is a book that is as devastating as it is life-affirming, a weapon that both wounds and saves." --Ada Limón, "Erotic, folkloric, elegiac, philosophic, aesthetic, lyric, queer and rural and utterly haunted (but without the usual messiness of haunting), Wunderlich transcends downward and takes us with him. . . . I am in love with The God of Nothingness , which is permeated, it turns out, with a majestic somethingness. " --Diane Seuss "Mark Wunderlich's poems are alarmingly wise, lyrically charged, and built out of an almost otherworldly clarity. . . . Wunderlich makes an argument not for beauty but for a clear-eyed resilience. God of Nothingness is a book that is as devastating as it is life-affirming, a weapon that both wounds and saves." --Ada Limón, " God of Nothingness is a folkloric investigation into death and its resounding implications on our humanity and significance." -- The Arkansas International "The superb fourth collection from Wunderlich disarms with its directness, humor, and pathos." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Wunderlich . . . strikes a note of elegiac unease [in God of Nothingness ]. . . . The poem 'My Night with Jeffrey Dahmer,' as chilling as its title, owes much of its power to the poet's ability to orchestrate a suspensefully blended tone of dread and desire." -- Library Journal "Erotic, folkloric, elegiac, philosophic, aesthetic, lyric, queer and rural and utterly haunted (but without the usual messiness of haunting), Wunderlich transcends downward and takes us with him. . . . I am in love with The God of Nothingness , which is permeated, it turns out, with a majestic somethingness. " --Diane Seuss "Mark Wunderlich's poems are alarmingly wise, lyrically charged, and built out of an almost otherworldly clarity. . . . Wunderlich makes an argument not for beauty but for a clear-eyed resilience. God of Nothingness is a book that is as devastating as it is life-affirming, a weapon that both wounds and saves." --Ada Limón, " God of Nothingness is a folkloric investigation into death and its resounding implications on our humanity and significance." -- The Arkansas International "[God of Nothingness is] Mark Wunderlich's . . . best collection of poems. . . . He makes lines as warm and clean as the sunlit pine floors upon which his cat napped." --Commonweal "The superb fourth collection from Wunderlich disarms with its directness, humor, and pathos." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Wunderlich . . . strikes a note of elegiac unease [in God of Nothingness ]. . . . The poem 'My Night with Jeffrey Dahmer,' as chilling as its title, owes much of its power to the poet's ability to orchestrate a suspensefully blended tone of dread and desire." -- Library Journal "Erotic, folkloric, elegiac, philosophic, aesthetic, lyric, queer and rural and utterly haunted (but without the usual messiness of haunting), Wunderlich transcends downward and takes us with him. . . . I am in love with The God of Nothingness , which is permeated, it turns out, with a majestic somethingness. " --Diane Seuss "Mark Wunderlich's poems are alarmingly wise, lyrically charged, and built out of an almost otherworldly clarity. . . . Wunderlich makes an argument not for beauty but for a clear-eyed resilience. God of Nothingness is a book that is as devastating as it is life-affirming, a weapon that both wounds and saves." --Ada Limón