Science and Other Poems

Alison Hawthorne Deming brings to her first collection of verse the kinds of scrupulous observation and clear-eyed analysis that characterize scientific inquiry as well as a poet's eye for the telling moment. 'Science and Other Poems' establishes astonishing parallels between the mute, inexorable processes of the physical universe and the dark mysteries of the human heart.

I

Science

3

(2)

Twin Falls

5

(2)

Caffe Trieste

7

(1)

The Stone Breakers

8

(1)

Canoeing the Salt Marsh

9

(2)

Shooting Flamingoes

11

(1)

Refuge

12

(1)

Breakwater

13

(1)

Fiber Optics and the Heart

14

(1)

North

15

(1)

Ano Nuevo

16

(2)

At the Ranch

18

(2)

Grand Manan

20

(2)

Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne

22

(5)

The Dream of a Moral Life

27

(4)

II

First Encounter Beach

31

(2)

Bells

33

(1)

Breading the Soft-Shelled Crabs

34

(1)

At the Hairdresser's I Think of Heraclitus

35

(1)

Eve Revisited

36

(1)

Dreamwork

37

(1)

From Away

38

(1)

Stuck for Repairs in Tucson

39

(1)

The Massage

40

(1)

Saturday, J.'s Oyster Bar

41

(1)

Shakers

42

(1)

Reception

43

(1)

Snapshots for My Daughter

44

(1)

Scenes from a Childhood

45

(8)

How We Did It

45

(2)

Seven

47

(1)

Alliance, Ohio

48

(1)

Museum Piece

49

(1)

The Pelican

50

(3)

III

Mt. Lemmon, Steward Observatory, 1990

53

(4)

My Intention

57

(1)

The Woman Painting Crates

58

(2)

Island Stars

60

(1)

Camp Tontozona

61

(2)

Dreamwork with Horses

63

(2)

Off-Season

65

(1)

The Russians

66

(1)

Instructions on, Or Rather, Examples of How to Love the Earth

67

(1)

The Gardener

68

(1)

Recital

69

(1)

The Man Who Became a Deer

70

(2)

At the Marin Exhibit

72

(1)

Searching for the Lost

73

(1)

Letter to Michael

74

(2)

Staying over Nature

76

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