Can the notion of Romanticlove withstand our endless postmodern moment? In these extraordinary poems,Kimberly Grey explores our abiding need for neatness, order, and symmetry inmatrimony, considering our ideals for love and language in this digital age—itsweightless, distracting, and inescapable pressures. She portrays the ways in which love reflects us back to ourselves:familiar but strange, predetermined but new.There is “a drop ofblue light,” she writes. “But no high-tech way / to say you’re mine. No way to love / each other but with these ancientbodies."