"Tech-inspired sonnets and prose poems that decode a life through the experience of loss Tierney’s new collection takes its title from lossless data compression algorithms. It positions the sonnet as lines of code that transmit through time and space those ‘stabs of self,’ the awareness of being that intensifies with loss of relationships, of faith, of childhood, of people. The qualities of light, colour, and movement in the sonnets conjure a sense of arrested time, of dust motes in the air. Playing against this intimacy are loopy chapters of Borgesian prose poems -- with appearances from Duns Scotus and Simone Weil, Wittgenstein, Niels Bohr and others -- that extract knowledge from information to reconstruct the source experience into a subjectivity, a personality, and a life."-- Provided by publisher.