In The Wanting Way, the second book in Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent—Adam Wolfond proves more than willing to “extend the choreography.” In fact, his entire thrust is out and toward. Each poem moves out along its own underutilized pathway, awakening unseen dimensions for the reader like a wooded night walk suddenly lit by fireflies. And as each path elaborates itself, Wolfond’s guiding hand seems always to stay held out to the reader, inviting them further into a shared and unprecedented unfolding.  The Wanting Way is actually a confluence of diverse ways—rallies, paths, waves, jams, streams, desire lines—that converge wherever the dry verbiage of the talking world requires hydration. Each poem is an invitation to bathe in the play of languaging. And each poem is an invitation to a dance that’s already happening, called into motion by the objects and atmospheres of a more-than-human world. Wolfond makes space for new poetics, new choreographies, and new possibilities toward forging a consensual—felt and feeling—world where we might find free disassembly and assembly together.  There is a neurodivergent universe within this one, and Wolfond’s poems continuously pull back the unnecessary veil between human and nature. 

Table of Contents:
The Ways of Yearning   In Way of Music Water Answers   I Am the Pace of My Body and Not Language   The Language of Lasting   A Landing Always Answers   I Plant Watered Words   A Typology of Water   I Am Eating Language All the Time   Algo Rhythm 1   Rushing   To Think Answers Is to Autism Tangled   Answers Toward Questions Other Than What Is Autism   The Maker of Wanting Space   Tic and Tap   The Walls Are Never Still   Ticcing the Assembly   Tall Ideas   Mainly I Saturate   Algo Rhythm 2   The Important Walks for Time   I Am Able to Scatter   Too Music   Peel   Arranging the Water   Roaming the Forest of Eager Talking   Algo Rhythm 4   I Want to Tic and Stick Not Study Ramming Questions About Amazing Autism   I Lose Myself in the Sticks   The Way of the Stick Is the Open Man Who Laughs at Money   I Am Erased   Music Smells like Candy   Reading My Body   I Am Collected   Algo Rhythm 6   Towards the Assembly   Owl Monkey vs. the Assembly   The Thinking Objects Do   The Maker   The State of the World   Isolation Song of Love   Calm-Arriving to a Wanting Safe World   Open Dancing Wants Easy Rally   The Way of the Walk   Algo Rhythm 7   The Wanting Silence   Yes Go Pale Things to the Easy Feel I Am   The Hall of Things   I Am the Question Assembly   Land in the Glass House Is the Always View of the World Is the Easy Way of Seeing and I Am the Talking Glass of the Autistic Pace Talk to the Glass Face of the Autistic Man   Easy Congregation   Owls Easy on the Ways of Language   Algo Rhythm 8   Do you want to / easy want to / think about the way I feel today?   The Way of Making Wanting Sentences the Way I Go Like the Things I Am Seeing   The Talking Without Words Is the Walking with Feeling   Meeting the Feeling   The Middle in the World   Notes Toward a Resting Beckon   Algo Rhythm 10   Yarn Water   Strand   towards the treatise towards impossibles   How Is the Weather Pacing the Thinking   Language with Me and Write Landings of Parole   Another Dream of Wanting Justice   Ways / Waves / Ways / Waves / Ways   Bathing Snakes   Algo Rhythm 14   The Beauty of Autistic Knowing   Walking the CAMH (Centre for Addictions and Mental Health) Wall   The Thinking Waves and the Riddle   The Game of Space and the Weight of Wanting Words   Dance in the Pace   Yes I Ache to Answer the Call (a manifesto of yes)   Human Book of Walking   Algo Rhythm 15   Bringing the Rallying Feeling Together   Good Instigation   The Name for it Should Be Mursted Chill   Freely Theaters   In the Time Body Together   Eros of Bathing Stimming Dancing Pacing   Ways of Neurodivergent Time   The Ripples Are Ongoing Acts