Flight Risk: Poems and Translations

Born in California in 1951, raised in Japan and Mexico, DB Jonas trained as a classical musician in his childhood and took up the study of Middle Eastern stringed instruments and the music of Europe’s Roma as a youth. After several Wanderjahre in Spain, France, North Africa, and Italy following secondary school, he studied literature and continental philosophy at the Universities of California and Padova, later earning advanced degrees in Near Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature at Princeton and Yale.  Interrupting a doctoral dissertation on Proust, Nietzsche, and Levinas to pursue an employment opportunity in industry, he never returned to academics. Instead, he became increasingly captivated by the development of complex engineered systems and the study of complex dynamics in natural phenomena. He moved to New Mexico in 1999, where he managed a succession of business operations primarily concerned with the environmental remediation of nuclear and radiochemical facilities. Reti