Abstract
“What Infinite,” a collection of poems and lyric essays, takes up Emily Dickinson’s question: What Infinite—for thee? This work is asking questions about form and connection, about people and philosophy, about what is possible to say and under what conditions. Looking to mathematics, art, literature, and occasionally music, the collection chronicles the writer searching for meaning and sometimes finding it. These poems embrace paradox: at heart, “What Infinite” wrestles with the question of how to think about infinity from within a finite mind.