Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry

“ An astonishing work for adventurous readers intrigued by science and literature.” —Booklist, Starred Review

“Ben-Oni tackles major existential issues—creation, nullification, personal experience, objective truth—with grace, humor, and linguistic flair. —Publisher’s Weekly

“There are realms beyond our own. Rosebud Ben-Oni has seen them…” —The American Poetry Review

“Ben-Oni courts wonder throughout this book…” —A “Must-Read Pick” from The Millions

"These epics could be described as Latinx surrealism… Ben-Oni takes readers through marvelous soundscapes derived from the algorithms of imagination..." —Harvard Review

“This book explores existential themes like transformation, creation, and personal experience versus objective truth, undertaken with precision and a dose of humor.” —Featured in Woman’s Day as “20 of the Best Poetry Books to Read in 2021”

“Ben-Oni shows her math in all of its fierce, amalgamating energy that manages to build even as it nullifies…its combination of mysticism, science, and verse leave all fields transformed.” —Jewish Book Council

“Rosebud Ben-Oni’s unique style blends physics and language, as if she is single handedly trying to break down the STEM/Humanities divide. This collection explores how we seek connection, love, and understanding in a way that is truly otherworldly.” —An Electric Literature Pick as “10 Highly Anticipated Poetry Books to Redeem 2021"

“Ben-Oni humanizes the study of physics, from stars to particles: how can we fit into a world we cannot see, does it matter if our reality is not as real as we once thought, and do our deep feelings of loss, joy, and grief mean anything when placed against infinite space? This collection gives theoretical physics a human touch, allowing us to grapple with the most mysterious pieces of our universe.” —Poetry Northwest

“…the speaker in Rosebud Ben-Oni’s finely wrought poems wonders about what it is that we can truly know…” —RHINO

“These are poems of discovery, crafted by a poet who unlocks and unleashes the extraordinary power tied to each word she wields.” —Entropy

“This is a fascinating, electromagnetic collection of imagination, transformation, and connection.” Books Are Magic

"Ben-Oni is an absolute empress of form...it's hard to believe If This Is the Age We End Discovery was written pre-pandemic… she refuses to shine in any single direction, sending the brxght xyx of her intellect caroming from mystery to mystery...." —The Rupture

“It’s rare to use delight to describe a new work of poetry in this touchy, faux optimistic age. Yet that’s exactly what this on-target, off-kilter collection, equal parts playground and burial ground, offers… ” —CAESURA

“In this unforgettable addition to the corpus of speculative Latinx poetics, Rosebud Ben-Oni writes what at times feels like a simultaneously utopian and dystopian manifesto for our time…” —The Latinx Project

“If This Is the Age We End Discovery…offers us the radiant possibility of accepting this articulation as a sort of mathematical proof, or else as a prayer: one to sustain us as we reach out that first arm to the shoulder of the unknown.” —On the Seawall’

“These whimsical and eerie components braid throughout the collection with filigree precision, and function within a kind of syntactical callisthenic--brackets, double colons, precise enjambment, and tiny exponents--so as to conjure the form of a mosaicked scientific theorem.” —Shining Rock

Featured on The Rumpus as "What to Read When 2021 Is Just Around the Corner”

A March 2021 Pick at Twenty Stories

ADVANCED PRAISE

“Rosebud Ben-Oni's poetry is exquisite and astounding. This is a poet who is going places.” —NOELLE KOCOT

"I experience much boredom these days with the world and its predictable cruelties or poetry and its predictable safeties. This phenomenon of a book launches me with its wonder into space and the multiverse and then somehow discovers compassion where we might expect to find only absence of heat or light. Ben-Oni rides with and wrestles the horse of theory to the event horizon's brink, and at the point that empirical proof can take her no further, love transmutes undoing into possibility unimagined."—KYLE DARGAN

“Through these breathtakingly elegant poems, Rosebud Ben-Oni proves once and for all that poetry and science are sisters. If This Is the Age We End Discovery maps, like a series of carefully wrought equations, the physics of connection and loss. What does a love song echo against when it spins into space? What symmetries and risks are woven into our very code? How do we live wired for uncertainty, in the yawn of a universe we can’t control? Readers will find it impossible to escape this collection’s unparalleled gravitational pull.” —JENNIFER MILITELLO

If This is the Age We End Discovery