This Amazing Cage of Light: New and Selected Poems : Spuyten Duyvil : 9781941550328 : 1941550320 : 01 Sep 2015 : Poetry. "WABAC Machine begins innocently enough with the thought that a cat has no real name and proceeds through inexorable dream/? dervish/?fairy tale logic to a place (the wild?) where nouns dissolve. This is a world of radical flux where self is barely even a construction. Let's call it post-human. There is nothing academic about it. Things loom up and are always something else. Here it makes perfect sense for one 'me' to say, 'I sell temporary kitties in the form of reconstituted sponges.'"?Rae Armantrout "Quirky, electric poems, spare and challenging."?Peter Matthiessen "Martine Bellen is a poet of refreshing complexity. Her unpredictable disjunctions and conjunctions and her baroque mix of vivid images and meticulous abstractions make one uncertain whether these poems (in verse composed of prose segments) are precise narrations of the contingent or of dreams or of t