Poetry. Aidan Thompson's prose poems revel in both chance and design, theseemingly infinite potential of syntactic "particles." At times evokingStein and Picasso's cubism, these noun-populated portraits of21st-century mind show us the interstices of the world within andoutside us. Her new sentences move forward at the speed of lightbecoming thought (sound) thinking itself. As reading, "traveling thedistance of a book"; as narrative turned on its (literal) ear;as words taking place in the action syntax discovers might now be notonly possible but probable, moving to enact what happens when mind's eyemeets material/visible world of particular things head on. Don't missthis wonderfully daring first book.