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A Quark for Mister Mark, 101 Poems about Science
This title includes poems both old and new, focusing on science, its discoveries and processes, and also of poems which look at the world with an inherently scientific gaze, whether before Copernicus or after Einstein.
112 pages, Paperback
First published October 2, 2000
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February 1, 2014
Mostly disappointing, but includes the exuberantly grandiose
'Staines Waterworks' by Peter Redgrove,
The sublime
'In the Likeness of a Grasshopper' by Ted Hughes:
A trap
Waits on the field path.
A wicker contraption, with working parts,
Its spring tensed and set.
So flimsily made, out of grass
(Out of the stems, the joints, the raspy-dry flags).
Baited with a fur-soft caterpillar,
A belly of amorous life, pulsing signals.
Along comes a love-sick, perfume-footed
Music of the wild earth.
The trap, touched by a breath,
Jars into action, its parts blur -
And music cries out.
A sinewy violin
Has caught its violinist.
Cloud-fingered summer, the beautiful trapper,
Picks up the singing cage
And takes out the Song, adds it to the Songs
With which she robes herself, which are her wealth,
Sets her trap again, a yard further on
and the amusing
Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller
'Staines Waterworks' by Peter Redgrove,
The sublime
'In the Likeness of a Grasshopper' by Ted Hughes:
A trap
Waits on the field path.
A wicker contraption, with working parts,
Its spring tensed and set.
So flimsily made, out of grass
(Out of the stems, the joints, the raspy-dry flags).
Baited with a fur-soft caterpillar,
A belly of amorous life, pulsing signals.
Along comes a love-sick, perfume-footed
Music of the wild earth.
The trap, touched by a breath,
Jars into action, its parts blur -
And music cries out.
A sinewy violin
Has caught its violinist.
Cloud-fingered summer, the beautiful trapper,
Picks up the singing cage
And takes out the Song, adds it to the Songs
With which she robes herself, which are her wealth,
Sets her trap again, a yard further on
and the amusing
Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller
June 22, 2015
The test we do is simple. It was tested.
In the laboratories where such tests take place.
Reactions have been measured. noted. tested.
The aperture is touched. We do the touching.
Dilation follow from the touch we give.
What follow is so simple that it's touching.
Arousal as reaction is what's normal.
and that reaction is the one we want.
Once that is known, the whole thing is quite normal...
---Tested by Anthony Thwaite
I guess I failed the test. This collection of "101 poems about science" is dull. I have a collection of poetry and I have a live long interest in science. I cannot believe this is the best that this gets. We should be inspired, intrigued, entranced, enlightened. Maybe the names Riordan and Turney are just creations of the A.I. ver. 1.0 that selected these poems.
In the laboratories where such tests take place.
Reactions have been measured. noted. tested.
The aperture is touched. We do the touching.
Dilation follow from the touch we give.
What follow is so simple that it's touching.
Arousal as reaction is what's normal.
and that reaction is the one we want.
Once that is known, the whole thing is quite normal...
---Tested by Anthony Thwaite
I guess I failed the test. This collection of "101 poems about science" is dull. I have a collection of poetry and I have a live long interest in science. I cannot believe this is the best that this gets. We should be inspired, intrigued, entranced, enlightened. Maybe the names Riordan and Turney are just creations of the A.I. ver. 1.0 that selected these poems.
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