Quantum Heresies In Silver Seasons of Heartache

In Silver Seasons of Heartache

but not / my brain

Yet what can poetry do

In her chapbook The Purpose of Hands she ruminates upon such ontological questions

whether tragic

Quantum Heresies In Silver Seasons of HeartacheMary 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).