Jonathan Weinert's award-winning collection IN THE MODE OF DISAPPEARANCE transcends contemporary categories of traditional and experimental, existing in a mode in which the quality of thought itself is paramount. Like Wallace Stevens and William Blake, his poetry reaches the summit of philosophy without being shorn of song. Weinert draws on a range of classical and postmodern poetic strategies and structures to build a bulwark against the forces of fragmentation and disappearance. His intimate and expansive poetics forges a continuum of human knowledge in which, as Edith Sitwell wrote, "the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind" are one.