"Drawn from nine earlier volumes -nearly forty years of poetry- The Ratio of Reason to Magic provides a rich selection of the work of Norman Finkelstein, whom Lawrence Joseph has called 'a master poet writing out and out of our collective poesis'. It also includes the opening movement of Finkelstein's new serial poem, From the Files of the New Immanent Foundation. Equally attuned to the Objectivist tradition and the latter-day romanticism of the New American poetry, steeped in Kabbalah and Gnosticism, Finkelstein's utopian vision may be seen here to its fullest extent" --Back cover.