Quantum Heresies but not / my brain

but not / my brain

to evoke and invoke some of the great romantic gestures of poetic history while simultaneously charting entirely new poetic territory

whether tragic

before the title

these poems paint an intimate portrait of tragedy

Quantum Heresies but not / my brainMary Peelens spare poems pulse with what they contain and describein both the imagistic and the mathematical sense of the wordharnessing the power of the sciences to navigate the chthonic worlds of illness, loss, and desire on both personal and planetary scales. Peelen denies the divisions of mind and body, art and science, precision and ardor. Her poems resonate with allusion (Lady Lazaruss hair as a supernova) and sound (copernicium, ununoctium).