The Absence of Zero

Consisting of 256 16-line quartets and 34 free-form interruptions, this slow-moving haunting work is a beautiful example of "thinking in language," a meditation that explores time and memory in both content and form. The 20th century is already more than 20 years past: The Absence of Zero is Kolewe''s elegy to that era, and the disparate fragments of its ideas that continue to affect and disrupt our present.