“No lasting poetry from any era has ever flourished without an underlying cosmovision. No scientific revolution has existed without its poetic complement. For poets of antiquity like Lucretius, the harmonization of mundus with cosmos was de rigueur. Later, poets in the era of Aristotelian physics, and later yet, poets in the wake of the Newtonian revolution, struggled with the justification of poetics by science, and vice versa. And until very recently, the Quantum and Multiverse revolutions have been in danger of not finding our epoch’s Great Interlocutor. Amy Catanzano’s The Imaginary Present is a TITANIC endeavor that merits immediate and wide attention not just by scientists and poets, but by anyone who is striving to become a contemporary. These spellbinding essays have flung me into a state of utter ecstasy.”

—R O D R I G O T O S C A N O

“Amy Catanzano brings the seemingly disparate worlds of poetry and quantum physics together in a uniquely creative way by fully embracing and exploring the core principles of both realms. She challenges the ways we think about and implement each one, providing a deeper appreciation for both and for how connected they are.”

—M A R K K R U S E, D E P A R T M E N T O F P H Y S I C S, D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y

“Blasting through the barrier of metaphor, Amy Catanzano’s The Imaginary Present brings us, at vertiginous speed of light, into the multiverse of dimensionalities, where poetry in superposition exposes cosmos to the questions of quantum poetics, exploring daringly the physics of the impossible, and speculating inventively on the yet conceptless concepts . . .”

—M I N G-Q I A N M A, S U N Y-B U F F A L O

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