In The Fear of Algebra, poet and musician Jed Allen walks the borders of several heavens and hells, often vanishing for days only to reappear, still walking, still talking. Ghosts swarm this psychic countryside - mothers, fathers, Sheriff Big, corrupting Kings, a lost child - even a rogue angel or two. All of this in a dance of language in the fields of sound, as the poet explores a wide range of approaches to poetry, including the interrogation format used in the "The Body of God." The Fear of Algebra is above all a book of music, the human music, its last word singing.