Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems

"Take this as perhaps the most soothing manuscript of the past year. Daniel Nadler — Janus-headed tech firm CEO — debuts a collection made up of poems that feel less like lyrics than incantations for a trance-like state. Throughout these ultra-short 100 (much of the poetry is fewer than six lines long), Nadler’s ambient noodling is rooted in an arch sense of being-in-the-world, of floating ahistorically, free of the allusions and symbolisms made and exchanged over time. The result is a dream-inducing exercise in imagism that Ezra Pound would be impressed by."