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This magnificent volume of poetry-as-witness lifts up and dignifies the life we hold in common, illuminating that which is largely hidden within both the personal impulses and impersonal systems that drive and constrain us. The propulsive, elevating, and varied poems build upon each other toward an epic revelation of how our pride and dependence on technological growth blinds us with its short term gains. The resulting vision is one of dark and churning machinery within which everything is connected, the world becoming a vast fabric woven of passions and failures, of lights and shadows, exploration and exploitation leading to war and pandemic. There is individual freedom and survival to be found, but it is in finding the light within each individual's hard-won experience and compassion and understanding the spheres of which we are a part.

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Jared Smith is the author of 16 volumes of poetry and editor of several volumes of applied science. He has served on the Editorial Board of several literary magazines, including The New York Quarterly, Home Planet News, The Pedestal Magazine, and Turtle Island Quarterly, in addition to the boards of literary and arts non-profits in New York, Illinois, and Colorado. His poetry and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary journals and anthologies in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, England, France, Taiwan, and Mainland China. Recognized for his work in both the arts and sciences, Jared got his undergraduate and graduate degrees from New York University. He taught at NYU's Reading Institute and LaGuardia Community College (CCNY, ) before working as Vice President at The Energy Bureau, Inc.; Associate Director of Education and Research at Institute of Gas Technology, where his work included serving as an Advisor on Critical Infrastructure vulnerabilities to several White House Commissions under President Clinton; and finally as Special Appointee to Argonne National Laboratory. He lives with his wife in Ellicott City, Maryland.

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