In Gillian Conoley’s new collection, the four poems, “Preparing One’s Consciousness for the Avatar,” “Recipe for the Avatar,” “The Right to Be Forgotten” and “Life on Earth,” challenge language to meet its utopian obligations, and to overcome those all too familiar pragmatic expectations that have come to infect our imaginations. Conoley’s poetic vision, as radical as any today, insists upon nothing less than astonishment: “Jay a cobalt flash in the honeysuckle its head already gone (beyond itself).” Two collages by Courtney Gregg highlight the volume.