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This episode focuses on the physical book as material metaphor. How does the book itself shape our perception of the ideas entombed within it? Can the book as an affective technology that mediates experience reveal "the space between" and become a primary location for poetic substance? How can we find ways to place the analog and digital in hierarchical equivalence so that they feed off of each other? Finally, an hallucinatory letter to a lost lover longing to be brought back together. Amaranth Borsuk is a poet and scholar serving as an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell, where she also teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics. She recently served as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Media Studies and Writing and Humanistic Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she taught workshops and courses related to poetry's changing media forms from modernism to the present. She has a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California, where her work focused on the use of writing technologies by modern and contemporary poets to change their relationship to the page and their construction of authorship. In addition to writing and studying poetry, Amaranth is a letterpress printer and book artist whose fascination with printed matter informs her work on digital media. She worked for several years as a lab technician in the Lab Press at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles and currently makes small book projects at her desk in Seattle, Washington.