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Erudite--the word might be hurled at a poet as an insult, meant to suggest dull, arcane knowledge and lack of accessibility. In Strickland's case, however, erudite is a term of praise. For ideas and facts stud her poetry like so many gleaming jewels, yet they never tarnish the gold of human experience from which the poems are wrought. Take the trope of the title poem, for instance: beginning with the difference between magnetic and true north, Strickland launches into an exploration of the forces of love, until the metaphor links science and the heart so tightly that they are inseparable. Strickland's language is not easy; it is full of citations and allusions and sometimes dense with wordplay. But the force of her passion for ideas and for human connection sustains each poem. Patricia Monaghan
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Above The Steeple, Or Vector Victorious: 1. Spinning
Above The Steeple, Or Vector Victorious: 2. On Guard
American Artificers
American Speech
Articulate Among Us
Casting Of Bells Gives Way To Casting Of Cannon
Even Purits Forced To Re-cog
Figures Of Speech
A Frequent Dream...tremendously Widened
From Plain To Pure
Guidance
Hag Of Beare, Or The Calendar Girl
Heaven And Earth, 1666
A History Of Bearing Greek Gifts
Holding The Other Hostage
Iris An Illusion
It Is You Talking Just As Much
Jus Suum: What Can Never Be Taken
Linguisticuffs
Lodged In A Nursery Glass
Narrowness Of Narrow Path Endured
On First Looking Into Diringer's The Alphabet: A Key To The History
Pregnancy
Preservation Of Order
Presto! How The Universe Is Made
Prometheus, Or The Eagle's Prey
Real Life Is White In Connecticut
Real Toads
The Romans Captured Archimedes
Striving All My Life
There Was An Old Woman
Time-capsule Contents: 1. Sermon: What Will Be Left?
Time-capsule Contents: 2. Transcription Of Outtakes From Pre-trial
Time-capsule Contents: 3. Journal Entry
To Be Here As Stone Is
True North: 1
True North: 2. Our Home The Earth
True North: 3. It's Hard
True North: 4. Strategem Strategem
True North: 5
Who
Who Counts, Counts
The Whole
Young Willard Gibbs Is A Physicist
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
1 Natural Numbers
2 Integers
3 Rational Numbers
4 Real Numbers
5 (imaginary Numbers
Above The Steeple, Or Vector Victorious: 1. Spinning
Above The Steeple, Or Vector Victorious: 2. On Guard
American Artificers
American Speech
Articulate Among Us
Casting Of Bells Gives Way To Casting Of Cannon
Even Purits Forced To Re-cog
Figures Of Speech
A Frequent Dream...tremendously Widened
From Plain To Pure
Guidance
Hag Of Beare, Or The Calendar Girl
Heaven And Earth, 1666
A History Of Bearing Greek Gifts
Holding The Other Hostage
Iris An Illusion
It Is You Talking Just As Much
Jus Suum: What Can Never Be Taken
Linguisticuffs
Lodged In A Nursery Glass
Narrowness Of Narrow Path Endured
On First Looking Into Diringer's The Alphabet: A Key To The History
Pregnancy
Preservation Of Order
Presto! How The Universe Is Made
Prometheus, Or The Eagle's Prey
Real Life Is White In Connecticut
Real Toads
The Romans Captured Archimedes
Striving All My Life
There Was An Old Woman
Time-capsule Contents: 1. Sermon: What Will Be Left?
Time-capsule Contents: 2. Transcription Of Outtakes From Pre-trial
Time-capsule Contents: 3. Journal Entry
To Be Here As Stone Is
True North: 1
True North: 2. Our Home The Earth
True North: 3. It's Hard
True North: 4. Strategem Strategem
True North: 5
Who
Who Counts, Counts
The Whole
Young Willard Gibbs Is A Physicist
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
