i tulips [Paperback]

Mario Petrucci (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1904634931 | ISBN-13: 978-1904634935 | Publication Date: October 20, 2010

Ecologist, physicist, and Royal Literary Fund Fellow Mario Petrucci is renowned for combining innovation with a profoundly human aspect, particularly in the creative dialogue between science and poetry. Endlessly inventive, yet thoughtful and musical, his i tulips presents a set of tender modernist lyrics with a strong contemporary edge. Turning his generous eye (or microscope) towards nature, science, everyday human experience, and - with compelling intimacy - love, Petrucci combines an uncompromising urgency with a many-sided, fractal beauty that rewards sustained attention. ""[Petrucci] brings readers a fascinating assortment of insight into the world and what it means to see and experience its beauty.""-The Midwest Book Review

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[Petrucci] brings readers a fascinating assortment of insight into the world and what it means to see and experience its beauty. --The Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Ecologist, physicist and Royal Literary Fund Fellow Mario Petrucci is renowned for combining innovation with a profoundly human aspect, particularly in the creative dialogue between science and poetry. He is the only poet to have been in residence at the Imperial War Museum and with BBC Radio 3. A prizewinner in the National Poetry Competition and four times winner of the London Writers competition, he is recipient of the Bridport Prize, an Arts Council England Writers' Award and a New London Writers Award. He recently delivered a groundbreaking series of poems and study resources to the Poetry Society as part of a major commission in Ecopoetry. Heavy Water is the basis of an award-winning film by Seventh Art Productions.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Enitharmon Pr (October 20, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904634931
• ISBN-13: 978-1904634935
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,800,508 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An intriguing assortment of poetry, very highly recommended, September 12, 2010

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This review is from: i tulips (Paperback)

If you blink, you might miss something. "I Tulips" is a collection of poetry with a scientific slant from Mario Petrucci as he brings readers a fascinating assortment of insight into the world and what it means to see and experience its beauty. "I Tulips" is an intriguing assortment of poetry, very highly recommended. "Behind the Lines": -just as you might never/find some white-worn/tongue of soap//long fluffed/beneath basin -- or/fine marks of particular//weight penned in their/margin near skip-bottom or/one flake/falling deep in a/cwm between sheer-set//neighbors of pine -- or/with morning still dark that//word/barely spoken/to your sleeping ear.