immensely powerful and dangerously unpredictable--stands in for the volatile nature of intimate relationships ([Louis] Slotkin's wife is having an affair with one of his colleagues) and for creativity itself. In the following passage, written from Slotkin's point of view, [Michael] Lista touches on these motifs: "And if you overhear people speaking of our split,/listen for the schismatic overtones/of the word as applied to physics, specifically/fission: how when an atom's centre smashes and cracks, new light explodes from matter's collapse."
from Barbara Carey: Toronto Star: Swimming Ginger and Bloom: Musing on the past
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