<p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">"Swensen is psychopomp back to an orphic sense of voice, one the critic Elizabeth Sewell, in&nbsp;</span><em style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">The Orphic Voice</em><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">, describes as&nbsp;</span><em style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">...a kind of manual of language and mind as a dance of relations, moving and not static, which may help us forward</em><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">. That could serve as worthy blurb for&nbsp;</span><em style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">And And And</em><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">. Swensen is returning us to a kind of first poetics, a&nbsp;</span><em style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">prima poieia</em><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">, in which word and world are co-creative and mutually flourishing. Here language doesn't define, doesn't categorize, doesn't lay claim to fact or knowledge. What paltry things such certainties are against the ongoing mystery of the vital energy stitching one life to every other..." </span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">-Dan Beachy-Quick</span></p>