Putting unprecedented pressure on the line break, Emmanuel Hocquard’s obliquely interlaced poetic series cracks open the façade of language to let a little light through—the glimmers are beyond definition, explication, or even, in a certain way, expression, yet they are, nonetheless, there. Building on decades of attention to Wittgenstein, Hocquard has fused his interest in the philosophy of language with his dedication to the most elemental forms of experience in this sequence of quick, sharp, juxtaposed perceptions. Calm and alarming at the same time, they reveal the present moment in its eternal act of passage.

The only place to find this book at the moment seems to be Amazon—we’d much rather suggest abebooks.com or bookshop.org, but Amazon seems to be the only source at this point.