Molly Brodak \'s The Cipher is a deft and unsparing study of the limits of knowledge and belief, and of what solace can be found within those limits. "We hold our little lamps of knowing / on the rim, and look in." Drawing vividly from mathematics, Christianity, European history, urban life, and the natural world, these poems reveal a vision of contemporary experience that is at once luminous and centered on. "We stand on the rim of the void," Brodak writes.
Molly Brodak \'s The Cipher is a deft and unsparing study of the limits of knowledge and belief, and of what solace can be found within those limits