Philip Memmer’s sixth book of poems retells the Sisyphus myth in a series of 72 micro-poems, punctuated with etchings by artist John Fitzsimmons.

This breathtaking new collection resembles an origami fortune-teller: all possible fates are prewritten, hidden in the folds, but what matter are the questions we ask in the getting-there. A heartbreaking, funny, and ultimately redemptive work which expands the heart’s horizon: I will keep returning to it.

—Penny Boxall, author of Ship of the Line