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Emily Grosholz’s “The Stars of Earth: New and Selected Poems” combines accounts of compassionate awareness in her far-reaching travels and the importance of love and friendship, with sometimes esoteric thoughts from her study of philosophy.
The Stars of Earth - new and selected poems
She also captures the brief, beautiful moments of family life. Her four children made a significant impact on her lifetime journey, recorded, for example, in one son’s pleasure in puddle-splashing, and another’s in learning a new language, and her daughter’s effortless ability to sing. Her husband’s peaceful snoring brings back one glimpse of Mount Fuji and her memories of their first year together bring back the Amalfi Coast. And her study of philosophy, mathematics, and the sciences show up here and there as metaphors and ideas. Her masterwork is both heart-warming and encouraging.
Given the author’s decades of work in philosophy of mathematics and science, which culminated in winning the Fernando Gil International Prize in Philosophy of Science, this book of poems challenger many boundaries...
About the Author
Emily Grosholz was born in the suburbs of Philadelphia and attended the University of Chicago and Yale University. Since 1979 she has taught at the Pennsylvania State University, where she is now Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy, African American Studies, and English. Her first book of poetry, The River Painter, appeared in 1984; her most recent book, Childhood, has been translated into Japanese, Italian and French, and has raised $2500 for UNICEF. She has lived in France, Germany, and the UK and traveled to Japan, Russia, Costa Rica, and the Mediterranean, and the Baltic...
Source: WebWire
