Squaring the Circle; Philip Fried (Salmon Poetry)

Phillip Fried's sixth collection. A humorous and yet also mysterious evocation of esoteric physics and theology. The title poem presents a mystic/scientific quest for an impossible geometry as both a vaudevillian historical catastrophe and a way of understanding God. Throughout, Fried uses pastiche and the mashup of texts to explore historical moments and personal history. Fried lives in New York with his wife, the photographer Lynn Saville.