About this book
A collection of wry and fiercely intelligent sonnets from a widely praised poet
Aaron Fagan’s Atom and Void is a dazzling and haunting meditation on existence and impermanence. This collection of sonnets delves into the fragility of perception, the boundaries between self and other, and the ways language fractures and recombines to illuminate meaning. Drawing on influences as diverse as physics, art, and philosophy, the poems balance precision with abstraction, creating a space where the reader encounters the immediacy of experience alongside its inevitable fading.
What emerges is a deeply personal yet universal reckoning with the nature of being—its joys, its terrors, and the unrelenting beauty of its transience. These poems do not seek to provide answers but to embody the questions that shape our lives. The result is a work that both disrupts and comforts, holding the reader in a delicate balance of wonder and disquiet. With its thematic range and lyrical precision, Atom and Void is an extraordinary contribution to contemporary poetry.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Seires Page
- By Aaron Fagan
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Epigraphs
- We Who Are About to Die Salute You
- Atom and Void
- Between Things and Words
- Everyone a Parsifal
- The Zebra Lounge
- Cocaine in Sears Tower
- The Whole of It Calls for Tears
- Men with Scars on Their Heads
- Deepfake
- Aporia
- Asteriskos
- A New Way to Pay Old Debts
- The Passenger
- The Cloud of Unknowing
- Rings of Saturn
- Chronopolis
- Signs of Things to Come
- A Last Spark before the Night
- On a Drive-In Viewing of The Other Side of the Wind
- The Near Future
- Pretty Soon
- Intermission
- An Atlas of Rare and Familiar Color
- Francisco Goya
- Interaction of Color
- Carpets in the Museum
- Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes
- A Kind of Life
- Utter Things Hidden
- Hedphelym
- Natural Tuning Green Dusk for Dreams
- Animal Magnetism
- I Had to Go Nowhere
- The Erotic Life of Property
- Fugue
- Test Pressing
- Night Grammar
- Meditations at Sea Level
- Hyperion
- A Clown on Fire
- Parousia
- Batrachomyomachia
- Cascade
- Pepper’s Ghost
- Anamorphosis
- Contraption
- A Beginner’s Guide to Invisibility
- Petals of Fire
- Stained Glass
- Exploded View
- Anamnesis
- At Capacity
- The Last Night of the World
- Maladroit
- Envoi
- Seires List
