Seeking the Mystical Theory of Everything

by Lucas Klesch

A book of love, awareness, and longing for connection is at the heart of this poetry collection by a climate scientist. It’s a poetic study of quantum science in a relatable way, highlighting how mysticism and modern new age philosophies are rooted in the mathematics of the future. The poetry is full of richly juxtaposed words and ideas as he processes the trauma of climate grief, the loneliness of modern living, and the hope of future love. The poems weave a wonderfully complex life of emotional longing for the connections of love, and the magic of experiencing the natural world when out adventuring.

248 pages, Paperback

First published October 11, 2019

About the author

Lucas goes by the artist name @TheFreschKlesch and has been active in Portland for twenty plus years. He began his journey as an artist the makers way, where from the young age of seven, he learned photography from his father as his apprentice in the darkroom. When he turned ten years old, his beatnik grandma introduced him to coffee and poetry as a birthright. Over the years of writing poetry, he learned how his heritage of Emily Dickinson and Dylan Thomas played itself out in his own poetry. He balanced these artistic talents with practical study as a climate scientist, where he has fought most of his adult life for a sea change in human thinking through applied climate solutions. When his daughter was born, he took up abstract painting, and has art focussed the last ten years on a style of modern art which carries quantum messages left over from the universes formation. In his mid twenties, he embraced the Bukowski life and the dive bar alternative culture of Portland. This in depth plunge into alt culture gave rise to his first three poetry books, a pioneering genre of photography entitled Twisted Pinups, and a can claim to be one of the mythical initial twenty Timbers Army members who revolutionized futbol supporters in America. He currently lives in Multnomah Village in Portland Oregon with his teenage daughter in a carbon neutral live/work studio where he is working on several photography books, a couple new poetry books, and his first literature book.

Reviews

[Matthew Overlund · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am not generally a poetry reader...

I did, however, enjoy this book. I read Brian Greene’s Hidden Reality a few years ago and I think my enjoyment of that subject and book in particular is what prompted me to pick this up.

I would not say that I’m now a poetry convert, but I enjoyed the read and found some thought provoking moments.

[James Jr. · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good book of poetry that makes you really think when it comes to the universe and all of creation.