Good Grief

A quantum system can exist in superposition: several possible outcomes until measurement yields one. Good Grief: A Life in Superposition borrows this idea to name, not explain, the experience of holding contradictions at once: love and anger, loss and relief, belonging and estrangement. Across forty poems and six movements, a nonbinary child of Latin American immigrants moves from lentils and gymnastics mats to physics labs, a father’s arrest, and a family learning new vocabulary. Drawing on quantum imagery, the collection traces becoming legible to oneself: a spiritual life without doctrine, closure, or easy answers.