Peter Kline

Interstitial Soundings

Philosophy

“What is so great about this book is that Cynthia Nielson performs for us the very thing she is writing about--hybridity, creativity, improvisation, and above all, the fearless practice of thinking along the edges of thought. . . . She shows us in this book how to make thinking an art.”

The Thoughtful Muse

Arts & Literature

“Hölderlin famously wrote that ‘poets establish what remains.’ What remains sayable of life’s winding and uncertain itinerary? Or what remains unsayable despite the most attentive crafting of language? William Franke’s poetry establishes both senses of ‘what remains.’ These poems provide a poignant glimpse of the intimate questions, dreams, pleasures, and devastations that make up an ordinary life lived with extraordinary attentiveness. In the insistence of what remains, language and life find their source and limit.”

The Vagabond Scholar

Arts & Literature

“William Franke’s writing, even in its academic mode, has always been poetic because it has always concerned itself with what animates but never finalizes itself within language. That Franke has been writing poetry his whole career is no surprise. Here we get a collection of early poems written on the move that anticipate, and perhaps unsay, all the later academic work. Beyond speech, there is silence, and beyond silence, there is poetry.”