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At the crossroads of science, mathematics, and art lives ""Quiver"", a stunning collection of poems that seeks to reconcile the empirical truths of science with the emotional truths of human experience. Through an ambitious set of poetic series and sequences, Somers-Willett reinvents the love poem, rendering an exquisite world where the graph of a mathematical equation can become the image of 'love's witness/running with its arms open all the way home'. With a deft, meditative sense of music, ""Quiver"" reveals a relationship between science and human sentiment that is as surprising as it is profound.
"Roam" explores the loss of a parent to cancer and the resulting
uprootedness that loss can create. In searching for a sense of home
and belonging, this collection of free verse looks both inward and
outward, to landscapes rural and urban, and speaks in haunting and
musical lyrics. Unexpected voices emerge from history and
myth--those of Joan of Arc, Ophelia, Circe, Daedalus and Icarus,
and Achilles' mother, Thetis--and mingle with the author's own
voice. From the naming of the first woman, Eve, to the naming of
the first European child born in the Americas, Virginia Dare, these
characters seek full houses and, instead, discover empty ones. In a
voice that is southern, feminist, and unflinching in its
assessments of the self, Susan B. A. Somers-Willett treats personal
loss without ceremony or nostalgia. The poems of "Roam "look
homeward while acknowledging that one can never return to such
elusive comforts. Her lyrics reveal the dangers and delights of an
ever-changing, ever-traveling sense of self.
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