What Is Otherwise Infinite

****Finalist for the New England Book Award in Poetry and the Vermont Book Award **** **As heard on NPR Morning Edition** **A New York Public Library Best Book of 2022 ** **A searching, startling new collection of poems from the author of *The Möbius Strip Club of Grief *and* Someone Else’s Wedding Vows*** Written in four sections with incisive and vivid lyrical language, Bianca Stone’s *What Is Otherwise Infinite* considers how we find our place in the world through themes of philosophy, religion, environment, myth, and psychology. “I deal only in the hardest pain-revivers, symbols and tongues,” writes Stone. “I want to tell you only / in the intimacy of our discomfort.” Populated by Archangels, limping in paradise; by allergies of the soul; the intimacy and danger of motherhood; psychic wounds; and dirty, dirty chocolate layer cake, *What Is Otherwise Infinite* deftly examines our inherent and inherited ideas of how to live, and the experience of the Self—which on one hand is so intensely personal, and on the other, universal.