The Wanting Way

Adam Wolfond

• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781571317773
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

In The Wanting Way, the second book in Multiverse — a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent­—Adam Wolfond proves more than willing to "extend the choreography."

In fact, his entire thrust is out and toward. Each poem moves out along its own underutilized pathway, awakening unseen dimensions for the reader like a wooded night walk suddenly lit by fireflies. And as each path elaborates itself, Wolfond's guiding hand seems always to stay held out to the reader, inviting them further into a shared and unprecedented unfolding.

The Wanting Way is actually a confluence of diverse ways—rallies, paths, waves, jams, streams, desire lines—that converge wherever the dry verbiage of the talking world requires hydration. Each poem is an invitation to bathe in the play of languaging. And each poem is an invitation to a dance that's already happening, called into motion by the objects and atmospheres of a more-than-human world. Wolfond makes space for new poetics, new choreographies, and new possibilities toward forging a consensual—felt and feeling—world where we might find free disassembly and assembly together.

There is a neurodivergent universe within this one, and Wolfond's poems continuously pull back the unnecessary veil between human and nature.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• The Ways of Yearning
• In Way of Music Water Answers
• I Am the Pace of My Body and Not Language
• The Language of Lasting
• A Landing Always Answers
• I Plant Watered Words
• A Typology of Water
• I Am Eating Language All the Time
• Algo Rhythm 1
• Rushing
• To Think Answers Is to Autism Tangled
• Answers Toward Questions Other Than What Is Autism
• The Maker of Wanting Space
• Tic and Tap
• The Walls Are Never Still
• Ticcing the Assembly
• Tall Ideas
• Mainly I Saturate
• Algo Rhythm 2
• The Important Walks for Time
• I Am Able to Scatter
• Too Music
• Peel
• Arranging the Water
• Roaming the Forest of Eager Talking
• Algo Rhythm 4
• I Want to Tic and Stick Not Study Ramming Questions About Amazing Autism
• I Lose Myself in the Sticks
• The Way of the Stick Is the Open Man Who Laughs at Money
• I Am Erased
• Music Smells like Candy
• Reading My Body
• I Am Collected
• Algo Rhythm 6
• Toward the Assembly
• Owl Monkey vs. the Assembly
• The Thinking Objects Do
• The Maker
• The State of the World
• Isolation Song of Love
• Calm-Arriving to a Wanting Safe World
• Open Dancing Wants Easy Rally
• The Way of the Walk
• Algo Rhythm 7
• The Wanting Silence
• Yes Go Pale Things to the Easy Feel I Am
• The Hall of Things
• I Am the Question Assembly
• Land in the Glass House Is the Always View of the World Is the Easy Way of Seeing and I Am the Talking Glass of the Autistic Pace Talk to the Glass Face of the Autistic Man
• Easy Congregation
• Owls Easy on the Ways of Language
• Algo Rhythm 8
• Do you want to / easy want to / think about the way I feel today?
• The Way of Making Wanting Sentences The Way I Go Like the Things I Am Seeing
• The Talking without Words Is the Walking with Feeling
• Meeting the Feeling
• The Middle in the World
• Notes Toward a Resting Beckon
• Algo Rhythm 10
• Yarn Water
• Strand
• toward the treatise toward impossibles
• How Is the Weather Pacing the Thinking
• Language with Me and Write Landings of Parole
• Another Dream of Wanting Justice
• Ways / Waves / Ways / Waves / Ways
• Bathing Snakes
• Algo Rhythm 14
• The Beauty of Autistic Knowing
• Walking the CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) Wall
• The Thinking Waves and the Riddle
• The Game of Space and the Weight of Wanting Words
• Dance in the Pace
• Yes I Ache to Answer the Call (a manifesto of yes)
• Good pace open way
• Human Book of Walking
• Algo Rhythm 15
• Bringing the Rallying Feeling Together
• Good Instigation
• The Name for It Should Be Mursted Chill
• Freely Theaters
• In the Time Body Together
• Eros of Bathing Stimming Dancing Pacing
• Ways of Neurodivergent Time
• The Ripples Are Ongoing Acts
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author