Ira Livingston’s Arrow of Chaos is a brilliant, erudite, challenging work. Few people are at home in Deleuze, chaos theory, and English Romantic poetry. The firm boundaries that have tended to persist between these fields have contradicted the very deepest insights of those fields-that fields themselves are unbounded and unstable, that all boundaries are fractal and permeable and subject to the laws of entropy. Livingston’s exhilarating and moving book will illuminate every surface he treats, with a decentered luminosity such as constellations give off.