PositiveQuill and QuireSkibsrud balances intellectual rigour with historical context and offers generous understandings that turn our attention to language as the texture of life.
As a whole, the collection is uneven in tone but consistent in its sharp insights on 20th-century writers and artists. The Nothing That Is signals Skibsrud’s versatility as a poet and writer who is able to winnow and subvert theoretical concepts for ambitious reinvention.
