Natural Science
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From the first poem about a “glass frog,” the reader understands that these poems about natural science are truly about the science of living life. Both perfectly literal and true to their scientific origins, this wonderful chapbook explores the vulnerability of the human heart, and the evolution of human relationships which, the author hopes, are moving from darkness to light. I love Schmid’s poems: mostly under twenty lines, precisely worded and wonderfully imagined, they find, like Donne once did, a vocabulary for life and love in the discoveries of the natural sciences, from biology to physics. Her cleanly written poems articulate, as the African Broadbill does, how to “be song” rather than just “sing song.”
—Robert Cording, Author of In the Unwalled City
(Slant Books, 2022)
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