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The quantum world, like the mystical, is anonymous, aporetic, hidden. In order to view this strange realm—one filled with particles darting in and out of nowhere; of what Einstein once famously called “spooky action at a distance”—this collection takes as its subject matter a myriad of interfacings—quantum physics, mysticism, cryptography, impersonality, and meontology, to name a few. Playfully rigorous and rigorously playful, Quantum Mechantics experimentally indexes a poetic form of ludic hopping (hop, from Old English hoppian “to spring, leap; to dance; to limp”). These text objects perform as the quantum world does: boggling and indeterminate, we discover a subatomic, quantum poetry-without-us—one that paradoxically exists only when observed.
Brad Baumgartner is a writer, theorist, and Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Penn State. His recent critical and creative work has recently appeared in Interdisciplinary Humanities, Cyclops Journal, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Vestiges, Minor Literature[s], and others. Current projects include ‘Weird Mysticism’, a scholarly monograph, as well as several creative projects including a hybrid work entitled ‘Stylinaut’ and a book of poetry, ‘Ailis of Fintona’.
