Kristin George Bagdanov

Atomic Theory 7

Arts & Literature

Foreword

“History can be read as a series of separations of death and life, light and dark. The intention behind that separation is sometimes holy, but often violent. Haunted by the space between these seemingly incompatible conditions, this collection conjures again and again the light that has the power to both destroy and redeem. . . . To live without hope of life is a burden no person can survive. The distance between the atomic and subatomic, between sun as life-giving and sun as life-consuming is the distance between the universal and the personal. That the same sliver of matter can both make and unmake life depending on a certain slant of light, the position and velocity of bombardment, is the contradiction that energizes this devastating collection of poetry.”

Madonna, Complex

Arts & Literature

“In this stunning first collection, Jen Stewart Fueston invites us to join her pilgrimage as, turn after turn, she questions the structures we thought to be stable. . . . Together, these poems shake the foundations of belief to release it from the forms that have held it captive. So that we, too, might one day wander into ‘formless air’ and ‘call it holy.’”