{"product_id":"a-different-physics-9780998514062","title":"A Different Physics","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry. California Studies. From thistles and fossils  to the inner workings of spacecraft  the poems in A DIFFERENT PHYSICS move with lyric power through natural and figurative landscapes  to worlds of cultural and intellectual models. A slide rule carries us from grief back to innocence. A silicon wafer for microchips reflects sexual politics and art history. In the central sequence  \"Flight \" we travel a cloaked realm of the military-industrial complex  to its unsettled territory of personal and national mythologies. Places  objects  and ideas launch explorations into our modes of industry and inquiry  and the very things--and lives--we have built. With musicality and formal breadth  these poems of curiosity  cynicism  reverence  and transformation invite us to consider the forces that shape our thoughts and our lives  as well as paths toward new possibilities for both.  \"In A DIFFERENT PHYSICS Lisa Rosenberg achieves attention as an action of mind and a spiritual attainment. These poems give the reader alert  informed attention to the natural world of plants and creatures--and also to the demanding world of particles  clean rooms and precision engineering. Moreover  A DIFFERENT PHYSICS unifies those realms  with an informed vision that is social as well as scientific  personal as well as historical.\"--Robert Pinsky  \"These compelling poems--sometimes dark  sometimes bright  but always elegantly crafted--will capture whoever comes across them. The lyric reach here engages everything from the abstract power of satellites and Greek letters all the way to powerfully observed details of landscape and feeling. These are ambitious poems: ready to unfold their world  ready to inhabit the readers memory.\"--Eavan Boland  \"Trained as a scientist and poet  Lisa Rosenberg brings both disciplines together in ways that are quietly terrifying. She writes from the lab and the mysteries of flight. In landscape  as beautifully rendered as in any modern writer  she sees the potential for destruction familiar to us in the daily news: great plumed pockets of fog like white flame \/ rise from ravines that channel fire or rain. A DIFFERENT PHYSICS is a great book  perhaps an antidote for the fire and fury of our time.\"--Kenneth Fields  \"Lisa Rosenbergs poems have their own physics  a science of stillness and movement  stored energies  and the gravity of experiences registered long before they are spoken aloud. In these poems rich and economical language  the artistic  the scientific  and the human imbricate: Matisses Blue Nude II is etched onto a silicon wafer. A child flings her limbs wide like Leonardos Vitruvian Man. And a woman  like Icarus  follows her father into flight and beyond into a world of satellites and secrets. A DIFFERENT PHYSICS subtly but memorably alters the way we read the world around us.\"--Nan Cohen\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45275331231797,"sku":"ByrdShop_0998514063","price":96.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780998514062.jpg?v=1780504900","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-different-physics-9780998514062","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}