some ekphrastic evening thisll be both criticism and poetry and failing that fall somewhere that seems like in between.amp160So writes poet critic theorist and MacArthur fellow Fred Moten in his latest poetry collection perennial fashionamp160amp160 presence falling.amp160Much like the poems found in Theamp160Feel Trio Letter Machine 2014 which was a National Book Award finalist and All That Beauty Letter Machine 2019 the poems here present Motenamp8217s amp8220shaped proseamp8221 on the page and the dizzying brilliance of both polyphonies and paronomasia.amp160Within this collection the poems hold an innate quantum curiosity about the infinitude of the present and the ways in which one could observe the history of the future. Poems beget poems overflowing and flowering urging deeper etymological investigations. In perennial fashionamp160amp160 presence falling Moten approaches the sublime relishing that intermediary space of microtonal thought.