How does one transform the recoil from menace and abuse into a capacity to care for another? How does one forge from existential bewilderment a desperately-needed emotional clarity? How can the unheard cry of pain become a song that helps us find our way? Questions like these are at the center of The Apathy of Clouds, Domenic Scopa's debut collection. To paraphrase Rilke, here is a poet who has been patient toward all that is unsolved in his heart, a poet who has learned to love the questions themselves. These hard-earned and beautifully-wrought poems are a result for which we feel a profound gratitude.