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These poems explore territories at various levels of the imagination—from the inscription of biography into the poet’s hands, by way of the worlds created by visual artists and fundamental physicists, to the infinite vistas we are able to perceive when we cleanse the doors of our perception. The poems are formally various but share key underlying themes. Central to these are two dawning understandings derived from physics and cosmology: that we are surrounded by infinities of other universes in which everything that can possibly happen does happen; and that mind is integral to the very existence of space and time. Also permeating the work is the vision of William Blake, who understood these realities in his own way two centuries ahead of science.