God of Nothingness

Advance Praise for God of Nothingness

“Mark Wunderlich’s poems are alarmingly wise, lyrically charged, and built out of an almost otherworldly clarity. Traversing the hard artifacts of familial memory and the loss and cruelty of this earthly plane, Wunderlich makes an argument not for beauty but for a clear-eyed resilience. God of Nothingness is a book that is as devastating as it is life-affirming, a weapon that both wounds and saves.”—Ada Limón

“Mark Wunderlich’s God of Nothingness positions itself ‘at the threshold of a vast emptiness.’ Its weather rasps with a Nordic cold, and God ‘hides the world of the living / underneath his coat of snow.’ The poems speak, often, with a tonal remove, as if observing characters and landscapes and ideas from the window cut into a diorama. . . . Erotic, folkloric, elegiac, philosophic, aesthetic, lyric, queer and rural and utterly haunted (but without the usual messiness of haunting), Wunderlich transcends downward and takes us with him. . . . I am in love with God of Nothingness, which is permeated, it turns out, with a majestic somethingness.”—Diane Seuss