An irrefutable mark of mastery in a collection of poems is the natural confluence of myriad tones, as is evident here. The dreamt and the humorous, the spiritual, the grieved, the hedonistic, and above all the philosopher's tireless empathy with the impossible infinite-all meet like hungry strangers at the motel in a torrential banquet of coherent tropes. An admirable book whose images-fast and vivid-and lucidly engaged complex ideas will ignite the reader's imagination. -Ricardo Pau-Llosa