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Squaring the Circle

Squaring the Circle

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Philip Fried's Squaring the Circle is humorous and yet also mysterious in its evocation of esoteric physics and theology.  The title poem presents a mystic/scientific quest for an impossible geometry as both a vaudevillian historical catastrophe and a way of understanding God. Throughout, Fried uses pastiche and the mashup of texts to explore historical moments and personal history.  Behind its many forms and approaches, however, the book conveys the strong sense of a “persona"—the feeling, as Stanley Kunitz once said, that the poet has imagined a person who could write these poems.