Contingent by Alix Anne Shaw

An English-to-English translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus, Contingent transforms the air-tight language of philosophy into the expansive, uncontained, contingent energy of poetry.

Alix Anne Shaw is the author of two poetry collections: Dido in Winter (Persea 2014) and Undertow, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize (Persea 2007). Her poems and reviews have appeared in journals including Harvard Review, Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, and New American Writing. She is also a visual artist. Her work can be viewed online at anneshaw.org.