The Particles

"In her brilliant new long poem, Mary Cisper examines aspects of nature as aspects of her own consciousness.  The question "who am I now," is also the question: what is the world now?  The Particles shows a fractal patterning between observer and observed.  The poem's Ontophany -- its revealing of being -- is experiential and goes on and on.  She cautions us: "careful, don't spill," while knowing full well that the poem as plenum will indeed spill.  The poem emotionally engages matters of mind and earth, and then marries them, just as science in The Particles is married to poetry."  --David Mutschlecner