Reviews of New Numbers
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"Josie Kearns brings a fresh sensibility and intelligence to contemporary poetry. New Numbers offers delightful insights into nothing less than the nature of What Is. The quality of imagination here is truly singular; the poems have a beautiful oddity and that is the rarest quality in poetry today. Fictional numbers with names like 'leethum,' 'quaro,' 'sping,' and 'eenum' become metaphors for indeterminacy, the unknown, the last straw, apocalypse and excess. At once playful and wise, uncanny and tough-minded, these poems will expand your sense of the world's harmonics."

–Alice Fulton

"Ms. Kearns delivers, in New Numbers, the precise and redemptive math of language. Against the disorderly figures of life as we know it, these poems tender a parallel universe–well reckoned, finely tuned, told truly–of incalculable gifts."

–Thomas Lynch