Three books. One question. Six hundred pages of answers.
For years Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II wrote what he believed were three separate books of poetry. Laid side by side, they turned out to be one: a single long argument about what a person can hold and what a person cannot, and the discovery that the things most worth having are exactly the ones that cannot be owned.
Poetry in Symmetry gathers all of it: 296 poems and tales, complete and unabridged. It begins inside a single life, moves outward into the world, journeys through enduring traditions, and arrives at a threshold no generation before ours has faced: asking the oldest questions of the newest kind of mind.
From the equilibrist on his wire to a mind made of code, this is a book about what we can hold, what we must let go of, and why the second list is always the better one.