Unfinished World is a novel of cosmic gestation. It focuses on the interface between the personal and the universal, the idea that we are the universe creating itself, suggesting that our individual awareness is part of a larger, universal consciousness, that our thoughts and experiences contribute to the ongoing process of the universe understanding itself, a deep
sense of interconnectedness that carries you everywhere like a feeling. It is also keenly alert to the ongoing shifts in the human paradigm and the volatility and precariousness of our
current dilemma. Much of the background for these reflections occurs in a trip to Kauai in post-pandemic 2023, a place of uncanny and beauty and serenity. It includes such universals
as Mahler's "Adagietto," Willie Dixon's "Wang Dang Doodle," the Dirac equation, and a toddler kicking the back of one's seat on a long flight over the Pacific while trying to read Mad
Love by surrealist poet André Breton.
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
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978-1-935835-37-0 (9781935835370)
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John Olson is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose poetry, including EchoRegime, Free Stream Velocity, Backscatter: New and Selected Poems, Larynx Galaxy, Dada Budapest, and Weave of the Dream King. He was the recipient of the The Stranger's 2004 LiteratureGenius Award, and in 2012 was one of eight finalists for the Washington State Arts InnovatorAward. He has also published five novels, including Souls of Wind (shortlisted for The BelieverBook Award, 2008), The Nothing That Is, The Seeing Machine, In Advance of the Broken Justy, andMingled Yarn, an autofiction. You Know There's Something, his sixth novel, was published byGrand Iota Press in May, 2023. Unfinished World, from Quale Press, is his seventh.
