Jonathan Weinert's award-winning collection IN THE MODE OF DISAPPEARANCE transcends contemporary categories of traditional and experimental, existing in a mode in which the quality of thought itself is paramount. Like Wallace Stevens and William Blake, his poetry reaches the summit of philosophy without being shorn of song. Weinert draws on a range of classical and postmodern poetic strategies and structures to build a bulwark against the forces of fragmentation and disappearance. His intimate and expansive poetics forges a continuum of human knowledge in which, as Edith Sitwell wrote, "the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind" are one.

Jonathan Weinert grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and has lived in Massachusetts for most of his life. He is a graduate of Brandeis University and the Spalding University MFA in Writing Program. Jonathan's first book, In the Mode of Disappearance, was selected by Brenda Hillman for the 2006 Nightboat Poetry Prize. Jonathan's poems and reviews appear in many journals, including American Letters & Commentary, Pleiades, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, LIT, 32 Poems, Memorious, Green Mountains Review, Notre Dame Review, and Third Coast.