» With poem titles like Making Time, Devolution, Entropy, Relativity, Dark Matter, and with an epigraph from Carl Sagan, and references to Mastodons, petroglyphs and quantum states, one might expect to find a collection of science-nerd poems. But science itself has changed (and maybe rescued poetry in the process). We donâ€™t live in a deterministic universe of Newtonian mechanics. Yes, â€œThe world / wheels toward the inevitableâ€. But we live in a universe of unobservable observations and strange attractions. The path to the inevitable is not fixed. Upper Rubber Boot Books

With poem titles like Making Time, Devolution, Entropy, Relativity, Dark Matter, and with an epigraph from Carl Sagan, and references to Mastodons, petroglyphs and quantum states, one might expect to find a collection of science-nerd poems. But science itself has changed (and maybe rescued poetry in the process). We donâ€™t live in a deterministic universe of Newtonian mechanics. Yes, â€œThe world / wheels toward the inevitableâ€. But we live in a universe of unobservable observations and strange attractions. The path to the inevitable is not fixed.

2 February 2012