Poetry. Sally Ball's first collection of poems is something of conversations and relationships-the connections and differences between personal life and the natural world, the Zen-like attention to suffering and knowledge. This is a work of intellectual and artistic inquiry, peeling away the delusion that something can explain our mortality and our existence. A work of scientific theory and probing questions that leave us with only one real explanation: luck.
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"In the provocative, finely wrought...original poems of Annus Mirabilis, Sally Ball examines the human impulse to know... -- Carl Phillips
"Sally Ball's Annus Mirabilis is a compelling and original work exploring the myriad relations between suffering and knowledge." Susan Stewart -- Susan Stewart
"Sally Ball's Annus Mirabilis is a compelling and original work exploring the myriad relations between suffering and knowledge." Susan Stewart -- Susan Stewart
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Winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize selected by Ellen Bryant Voigt
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Sally Ball Writes Sensible Poems,
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Annus Mirabilis, as a title for a book of poetry, can seem a bit opaque -- as they say in that world -- but open it up and you find poems that are as visible as the plant (perhaps the title plant) on the cover. Aside from an understandable fascination with the whys of science, mathematics and Isaac Newton -- fascinating because she makes it so -- Ball then gives us a poignant look at her beloved father waiting for a transplant. But my favorite poem (among many) is "Things a Depressed Person Cannot Do." She provides a convincing list of samples, and if you're like me you'll add onto it for days -- measuring the good days by the ones you can subtract. I'm still not sure why purchasing mayonnaise is on her no list for that slough of despond, but I sure can relate to "Tease/Protect/Console/Seduce."
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This is a wonderful book: surprising, witty, poignant, and fascinating. I loved the specificity of the language and the beauty of each poem. I was also interested in how the poems connected to one another. I was utterly engrossed. Ball is a talent to watch.
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Drawn from Nature and on Stone: he perches on a finger of a branch, shaded in from nowhere; enough sky appears around him to indicate the air, the palest wash of blue. Read the first page New!
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- A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar in Back Matter
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