APICALITYJean Day In Apicality (here, movement toward a point or apex, as in plant growth), Day concerns herself with morphologies writ large those of creative plant and animal life, historical thinking, knowledge, sound patterning, shapes of optimism and its opposite. The book's two sequences ("Ex Ovo Omnia," "And Now This") are part of her larger, as yet unpublished The Elements, a work that probes first (and lost) causes. The book's procedure is