Nonlinear Equations for Growing Better Olives

About this book

I liked my career in biochemical oncology, but the nomenclature bored me, lacking the spice of common names and not conveying the architecture of discovery and wonder. Therefore, Edward Nudelman became a poet. One of the great pleasures of this collection is seeing the natural world as inflected by his scientist's mind and poet's heart. The result is a poetry unlike anything I've read before. Nudelman's "architecture of discovery and wonder" reveals, again and again the miraculous and revelatory in the ordinary world around us. He shows us what we've missed. And isn't that why we came to poetry in the first place? Nonlinear Equations for Growing Better Olives is one of the freshest, most bracingly intelligent books I've read in a very long time. George Bilgere George Bilgere has published six collections of poetry, including The White Museum (2010), which was awarded the Autumn House Poetry Prize; Haywire (2006), which won the May Swenson Poetry Award; and The Good Kiss (2002), which was selected by Billy Collins to win the University of Akron Poetry Award. Mixing the nomenclature of science with poignant metaphors drawn from the natural world, personal experience and acute observ…