" A livid ghost shares space with wrecked daughters at the rim of a well
’ Here is the travelogue of a bright
as well as of Romanian poetry in general
This landmark volume collects these letters - a quarter century of work - and offers one of the most unique
in a language and style of verse that were emphatically modern
Origins: The Cosmos in Verse by Joseph Conlon Hera Lindsay Bird " A livid ghost sharesThere raged a thumping cosmic ballyhoo, A manic dance a rumpus to arouse The universe: of Higgs and W, Electrons, gluons, muons, Zs and taus For centuries poetry and science have been improbable, yet constant, bedfellows. Chaucer was an amateur astronomer; Milton broke bread with Galileo; and, before turning to the arts, Keats was a doctor. Meanwhile, scientific luminaries like Ada Lovelace and James Clerk Maxwell moonlighted as poets, composing verse