Systems for the Future of Feeling

These inventive and agonizing poems look, in heartbreaking paradox, tolanguage to explore its efforts and inadequacies, as they grapple with disintegratinglove and surging terror in modern society. Urgently, Kimberly Grey  explores the need for empathy and consolation-ourdesire (and responsibility) as beings in the world to express theinexpressible, comprehend the incomprehensible, bear the unbearable. Communingthroughout with literary forebearers-Anne Carson, Jack Gilbert, Sina QueyrasGertrude Stein-Grey looks to build "language systems" in order to help uscreate relevant expressions for expressing awe, confusion, bewilderment,nostalgia, horror, and joy.