Wilkes-Barre poet Richard Aston is many-faceted -- a teacher, an engineer, a textbook author, a technical writer. And Aston writes of those whose passion he admires-- in his latest collection, Valley Voices (Foothills Publishing, 2012) we meet laborers, many of them miners from the Wyoming Valley where he makes his home. Aston also writes of scientists and mathematicians -- and he has given permission for me to offer below his poems that feature Marie Curie, Isaac Newton, and Galileo Galilei. With the mind of a scientist and the rhythms of poetry, Aston brings to us clear visions of these past lives.
Scientist by Richard Aston
It took more than a figure, face, skin, and hair
for me to become Marie Curie,
wife of simple, smiling, selective, Pierre
who could recognize — because he was one — my genius.
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Showing posts with label scientist. Show all posts
Saturday, December 6, 2014
Friday, April 5, 2013
Miroslav Holub -- interview, poems
Frequent readers of this blog probably know that Miroslav Holub is one of my favorite poets. And it was a great delight to get a recent e-mail message with a link to a previously unpublished 1994 interview with this scientist and poet -- appearing in the April 2 posting in the Virginia Quarterly Review blog. The interview, conducted and written by Irene Blair Honeycutt, has these opening sentences: "Miroslav Holub
(1923–1998) is one of the most internationally well-known Czech poets.
He led a career as a scientist, and his poetry is known for its
sharpness and wit, as well as descriptions of aging and suffering."
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