Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe

Jim Tilley has published three full-length collections of poetry, In Confidence, Cruising at Sixty to Seventy, Lessons from Summer Camp, and a novel, Against the Wind, with Red Hen Press. His short memoir, The Elegant Solution, was published at Ploughshares Solo. He won Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize for Poetry for The Art of Patience, included in his new collection, Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe: New & Selected Poems. Jim currently resides in Bedford Corner, New York.

“Jim Tilley does confide in his readers as he explores a refreshing variety of subjects—everything from the complexity of father-son and husband-wife relations to the more solvable problems of dark matter and the origins of the cosmos. But what wins our confidence is not his range but his steady hand on the poem and his steady gaze at the world.”—Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate“Perhaps it takes a mind in equal measure that of a mathematician and an artist to produce a work with such perceptual and emotional bandwidth. Here we find poems of pure observation and distilled reminiscence; of rapt attention and a capacious imagination; of sheer whimsy and thinly disguised indignation. Tilley may despair at our pervasive human folly but ultimately finds solace, if not faith, in our natural abode. A most expansive read."—Scott Mason, author of The Wonder Code: Discover the Way of Haiku and See the World with New Eyes“Reading this book is like returning to those sometimes fraught but mostly carefree days of summer camp—or, for the uninitiated among us, like taking our blindfolds off and discovering that vivid world for the first time.”—Jeffery Harrison, author of Between Lakes"This is another book with a major focus on fathers and sons. Tilley's father appears often as do his two sons, and his affection and love for all three of them is evident, as is the heartbreak and difficulty of divorce, illness, loss, and life."—Epstein Reads