Winner of the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize Dean Rader reaches beyond artistic description to engage Twomblys work in conversation.In 2018 just a few weeks after his fatherampampamp8217s death Dean Rader made a pilgrimage to the Gagosian Gallery in New York to see a retrospective of Cy Twomblyampampamp8217s work In Beauty It is Finished Drawings 19512008. The exhibit led to a poem that would become the genesis of this book from loss and fear to regret and beauty Before the Borderless The Cy Twombly Cycle reaches for the embodiment of emotion and the aesthetics of possibility.Through a range of experimental forms including a series of octets Rader writes to decode the gestures and energies in Twomblyampampamp8217s drawings and paintings.