Incompleteness Theory by Danèlle Lejeune

If you ́ve never wished to trail poetry ́s shooting stars through a lens of science and math, Danèlle Lejeune ́s The Incompleteness Theory, an ardent love letter written across “space and time,” will shift your mind and alter your heart in astronomically stellar ways. Using images that dazzle and awaken “like glitter on the waves,” Lejèune navigates us through galaxies of devotion, desire, grief, fear, abuse, pain, and geocide with turns at once dexterious and tender. Once pulled into her orbit, you ́ll float past “bird sized geometries,” “tiny particles of minutes and seconds,” “star hungry darkness and stinger, fractal eyes.” Upon landing, you ́ll have discovered the interconnectedness of everything, the thread of love that, although incomplete, binds the entire universe together.
–Julie Weiss, author of Rooming with Elephants (Kelsay Books, 2025)

Fractals and ghosts, fault lines and poetic lines – in these poems Danèlle Lejeune calculates the weight of love, illness, geography, and God. Amid scientific principles and equations, Lejeune keenly observes the natural world, from asteroids colliding in the heavens to stingrays that “carry lightning in their hearts.” How can we persist in a world where gravity pulls us down and the body betrays itself? Lejeune’s poems show possibilities built on love and attentiveness, paying heed to both the births and deaths of stars.
–Juliana Gray, author of Honeymoon Palsy (Measure Press Inc., 2017)