Cara Benson Quantom Chaos and Poems

Cara Benson, Quantom Chaos & Poems – A Manifest(o)ation, BookThug, 2007, ISBN978-1-897388-14-3

The first thing that jumps at you is the cover. On it a braiding of some sort is systematically unraveled until it is 4 strands of the same piece of, let’s say, leather. That is what the reader is to do when reading these poems. Her writing style seems very unique and the book itself seems to follow the title, Quantum Chaos. The tagline after the title, “Manifest(o)ation” referring to both a manifesto and a manifestation it starts making you wonder. A Manifesto is sort of a statement that gets your agenda across. It is associated with madmen and cultists for the most part. Manifestation is a sort of a representation that isn’t what it is. These two things that have such a different connotation are linked by the common Latin root of Manifest which I guess has something to do with her choosing of the title. You read the poems and they don’t seem to make sense, but her poems are quite close to her senses.