Poetry. Like the vast stellar bin or the blackbody that Michael Peters alludes to in this cosmic fertility myth, the primal "poems" and images that comprise VAAST B1N; N EPHEMERISI absorb all impinging radiation (the raw data that Peters' inks into it) and re-radiate an energy that is uniquely characteristic of the glowing body (the book object, and Peters himself). Bristling and oozing with storm petrels, glowvents, mutend probes, hoary tropes and...