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New From Parallel Press: "The Scientific Method" by Mary Alexandra Agner
Posted 11/30/2011
MADISON, Wis. - Themes of curiosity and exploration infuse the poetry in Mary Alexandra Agner’s new collection, The Scientific Method (Parallel Press, 2011).
Many of the poems examine the legacy of women scientists, mathematicians, and medical practitioners. In "After Math", the poet recalls Florence Nightingale: “To the modern world, / pictures are not epiphanies. / Lump together all those bodies— / summed and graphed by hand— / and the nineteenth century / would ache with rot and TB / where today we see a piechart.” In the lines of "Jump the Chromosome", the poet asks Nobel Prize winner Barbara McClintock “Teach me to leave off counting, / reverence the difference of a single aberration.” The poems that make up The Scientific Method are found at the intersection of scientific inquiry, humanity, and gender, and invite reflection and thoughtful examination.
Mary Alexandra Agner lives in Massachusetts. Her writing has appeared in The Raintown Review, The Flea, Astropoetica, and Science. She can be found online at http://www.pantoum.org.
