Quantum Heresies before the title

before the title

she expresses the sacredness within us all in these beautiful lines: “There is an old church/at the end of a dirt road/inside each of us

these poems paint an intimate portrait of tragedy

Yet what can poetry do

and Kalpna Singh-Chitnis

Quantum Heresies before the titleMary Peelens spare poems pulse with what they contain and describein both the imagistic and the mathematical sense of the wordharnessing the power of the sciences to navigate the chthonic worlds of illness, loss, and desire on both personal and planetary scales. Peelen denies the divisions of mind and body, art and science, precision and ardor. Her poems resonate with allusion (Lady Lazaruss hair as a supernova) and sound (copernicium, ununoctium).