By Adrienne Rich

The topics of this ebook are the poetics of violence and the poetics of affection. Its impulse is the deepening of recognitions via language, in a time of lack of expertise and mutilation.

Miss wealthy has written: "For a poet...there is that this basic exertions with phrases. yet i've got the concept that the way you reside your lifestyles has anything to do with it—that morality, for a poet, is a refusal of blinders, of conventional consolations, a braveness to be on my own, or wounded....A willingness to step out into the fog, to take paths which can lead nowhere. walk in the park, predictability, are the 1st helps that experience to head. I see the poetry of items as status in resistance to brute mechanistic strength, the cost of the rhinoceros with its head down. To discover—literally—this poetry and re-create it in language is a poet's crucial action."

By Joshua Weiner

On the center of Joshua Weiner's new publication is a longer poem with a daring political measurement and nice highbrow ambition. It fuses the poet's perspective with Walt Whitman's to relate a decentered time-traveling university approximately Rock Creek, a tributary of the Potomac that runs via Washington, DC. For Weiner, Rock Creek is the site of myriad varieties of stream, streaming, and becoming a member of: own firm and fiscal capital; nationwide politics, homicide, intercourse, and homelessness; the Civil struggle and collective historical past; tune, non secular awakening, own reminiscence, and pastoral imaginative and prescient. The questions that come up from the hole foundational poem tell the others within the assortment, which variety greatly from the dramatic arrival of an uncanny charismatic totem that titles the amount to intimate reflections on family members, affliction, and dream visions. The virtues of Weiner's past books'discursive intelligence, formal keep watch over, an eccentric and interesting ear, and a wide-ranging interest matched to number of feeling'are all current the following. yet in The determine of a guy Being Swallowed through a Fish, Weiner has chanced on a brand new poetic idiom, person who is stripped down, rhythmically jagged, and comprehensively philosophical approximately human limits.

By Jeffrey Wainwright

In a sequence of ninety-five poems we take heed to ‘the Reasoner’, a voice that's by way of turns ardent, despairing and comedian. Petty obsessions rub opposed to makes an attempt at philosophical seriousness; vernacular expression vies with an rationale deliberation. peculiarly, the Reasoner is anxious. He has loved the idea that, with notion and examine, the area might be understood. however the international is still recalcitrant, elusive even in basic such things as the trickeries of sunshine on a spider’s internet. Language performs methods, even though it might be as entire as we will deal with. historical past proposes and disposes of its styles. in the back of all this there's a ‘hidden order’ – and that's either a desire and a fear.

Does God support us to appreciate any of this? Does paintings? Is the ‘soul’ a sanctuary? The Reasoner, the reader, ‘smiles ruefully and infantrymen on’, ‘for this isn't a depraved yet a difficult global, / and folks fight, with out a scheme of items, / and deserve release.’

By Carl Sandburg

Born in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with the USA. As a boy he performed, studied, and matured in Galesburg, Illinois. Sandburg's memory can provide a nostalgic view of small-town existence and a useful standpoint on American historical past. Index.

By Sarah Glaz, Joanne Growney

Strange Attractors is a set of roughly a hundred and fifty poems with powerful hyperlinks to arithmetic in content material, shape, or imagery. the typical subject matter is love, and the editors draw from its quite a few manifestations—romantic love, religious love, funny love, love among mom and dad and kids, mathematicians in love, love of arithmetic. The poets comprise literary masters in addition to celebrated mathematicians and scientists.

"What, finally, is arithmetic however the poetry of the brain, and what's poetry however the arithmetic of the heart?" So wrote the yank mathematician and educator David Eugene Smith. In an identical vein, the German mathematician Karl Weierstrass declared, "A mathematician who's now not even as anything of a poet seriously isn't an entire mathematician." such a lot mathematicians will comprehend what they intended. yet what do specialist poets consider arithmetic?

In this pleasant assortment, the editors current the view of a similar terrain—the connections among arithmetic and poetry—from the opposite aspect of the equation: the poets. now could be your likelihood to determine if the equation balances.

—Keith Devlin, mathematician, Stanford collage, and writer of The Math Gene, the maths Instinct, and The Language of Mathematics