SUMMARY

2019 Alice James Award Winner

“Ben-Oni draws on the odd properties of supersymmetry to create a dexterous collection of electric lyrics that defies conventions of science and syllabics alike. … An astonishing work for adventurous readers intrigued by science and literature.”
—Diego Báez, Booklist starred review.

A fascinating blend of poetry and science, Ben-Oni's poems are precisely crafted, like a surgeon sewing a complicated stitch. The speaker of the collection falls ill, and takes comfort in exploring the idea of "Efes" which is "zero" in Modern Hebrew, using that nullification to be a means of transformation.