“The superheroes of DC Comics meet the Nobel Laureate of particle physics; Charlie Chaplin meets Albert Einstein, who gives shelter to Marian Anderson when no hotel in Princeton will have her; the fractal repetitions of branching twig and leaf vein haunt the son of a father who did or did not teach him cruelty to women: all fuel for a sustained nuclear reaction of Quantum Lyrics. A. Van Jordan is one of the most capacious, deep-structural imaginations in American Poetry today. These poems are radioactive.”

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— LINDA GREGERSON