Infinity Pool

"Infinity Pool is at once completely contemporary and gorgeously lyric, possessed of a dynamic ability to practice the full range of strategies available to the poet. The title poem teems with embryonic stories, spinning through dreams and visions before orienting itself, tenderly and delicately, around a parent and a child. Infinity Pool sings a new pastoral in a technoscientific register, creating a lush poetic space full of fictions, images, stories, and characters that shape-shift as they resist and leave a sonic stain on the silence as they disappear. This artful, concise book of poems will surely make a significant contribution to contemporary American poetry." -- Katie Peterson, Phoenix Poets consulting editor and author of "Fog and Smoke"
"Thirkield's poetry has been on my mind for twenty years now-ever since I was a graduate student. Reading Infinity Pool, I felt I was encountering a new way to do the lyric in English, as beautiful as the old ways but entirely its own." -- Shane McCrae, author of "The Many Hundreds of the Scent"
"Infinity Pool oscillates wonderfully, offering narrations and meditations we think we can almost casually comprehend-along with language that challenges us to figure out entirely new ways to read. In powerful contrast to quotidian filter bubbles, Thirkield's poems turn inward and outward, immersing us while offering a view bounded only by the horizon." -- Nick Montfort, author of "Narcissystem"