PLANE OF CONSUMMATE FINITUDE

Poetry. new_sinews editions, 2024. Paperback, 98 pages. 8.5 X 6.5

From NMB: This is the first book from new_sinews editions, a press and online journal edited and designed by Barbaro. The book's typography is off the charts, a signature look perfected through the new_sinews online presence—here cranked up a few notches. Glossy, full-color pages make this book a joy to hold. Barbaro's poems are written in an equally charming and idiosyncratic style that mixes vernacular and lyrical idioms. They track the subtleties of thought and observation, inhabiting the collision of world, mind, and speech.

From the press: PLANE OF CONSUMMATE FINITUDE traffics categorically in the very defiance of categories. A collection of poems backdropped by a series of photomontage refrains, Steve Barbaro’s debut wanders from origins all the way back up to eternities in the midst of pitting eloquence against eloquence’s own worst enemies.