Within the seemingly infinite space of his extended paragraphs, within sentences that refuse closure, through the skyways of his mind, Jay Ponteri displays how, "[a] single physical space becomes many, indefinite labyrinthine without borders multiples of multiples." Part philosophy, part diary, part literary criticism, these existential essays on a world divided, held briefly, then lost, showcase the singular and isolated reachings of a life. In Someone Told Me, Jay Ponteri leads us into the deepest interior of the "indefinite labyrinthine" self through unfettered thoughts that swirl and elongate with memory and unknowing. An essayistic mind on a quest to hold and be held by what's on the other side, Ponteri instructs us, in rich and intensely meditative prose, to not despair, that we need merely to look up, to reach, to see through, that Presence is ever-present.

-Jenny Boully, author of

Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life