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True North
This collection of poems explores wayfaring, both in a spiritual sense and in the sense of knowledge navigation in an information age. It explores American history, encompassing writing and identity in the figures of Emily Dickinson and Willard Gibbs, the country's first mathematical physicist.
- GenresPoetry
94 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1996
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November 8, 2007
What a strange & wonderful book! The language of mathematics, of physics, of pregnancy, navigation, manufacturing, of religion, witches, & Macbeth...all jostled next to each other.
from "Linguisticuffs" :
"...Now for a theory
of language, what can
be said is more important than
what is,
but not to us: we are
surpassingly interested
in the actual
message, chosen
and sent.
Or, from "Presto! How the Universe is Made" :
"...Or deeper, look. No,
look, a quantum leap: the burst box--the born star--is re-
emerging on the line, on the line or/and...Repeat:"
However, the book suffers from being maybe a tad too long...my attention wandered by the end. Strickland is very adept at what she's doing, but she does it repeatedly. It works cumulatively up until a point, and then it stops working for me.
from "Linguisticuffs" :
"...Now for a theory
of language, what can
be said is more important than
what is,
but not to us: we are
surpassingly interested
in the actual
message, chosen
and sent.
Or, from "Presto! How the Universe is Made" :
"...Or deeper, look. No,
look, a quantum leap: the burst box--the born star--is re-
emerging on the line, on the line or/and...Repeat:"
However, the book suffers from being maybe a tad too long...my attention wandered by the end. Strickland is very adept at what she's doing, but she does it repeatedly. It works cumulatively up until a point, and then it stops working for me.
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