Bøger af Robb Thomson

These poems are the product of an author retired from a career in physics, who became intrigued with the power of poetry to lock daily humdrums as weill as ultimate mysteries into the totality of our being.

Arranging the Constellations is the record of a man who straddles the worlds of science and myth and is faithful to both. A physicist who writes poems and yearns to keep the ancient fires of inspiration lit and burning, Robb Thomson can both fondly recall his father's Model T and recognize all too well the first consequences of global warming. There is a hard-won courage in these poems: they accept the passage of time that teaches us how to live with loss after loss and, at the same time, they celebrate the pleasures of the here and now. Behind them, there is a deep-rooted belief in Beauty-in the elegant equations of physics and mathematics; or the magic of language that speaks, at moments, with a power beyond what we know. These poems trace a lifetime spent learning to grasp the right questions to ask; to live artfully, with the hope of adding one man's "marginalia" to the sacred text of the here and now and what lies beyond, "more real than real." -Robert Cording holds the Chair of Creative Writing at the College of the Holy Cross, and is the author of several collections of poetry, including Life-list, Heavy Grace, and Walking with Ruskin.

These poems are the product of an author retired from a career in physics who became enamored with the power of poetry to explore the deeper subjective aspects of being human, including what, if any, his science has to do with it, and to express the joy that can be found in living the life of an American at the beginning of this century. They cover subects from the personal to comments on the times to more general philosophical topics.

These poems are offered as a guide to one's unfamiliar self and to that outside world we only thought we knew.

These poems are the product of an author retired from a career in physics who became enamored with the power of poetry to explore the deeper subjective aspects of being human, including what, if anything, his science has to do with it, and to express the joy that can be found in living the life of an American at the beginning of this century. They cover subjects from the personal to comments on the times to more general philosophical topics.

In this book of short and medium short poems the author illustrates the power and reach of the shorter forms.

This book is the author's eighth book of poetry. The series started after he retired, and is an exploration of the world as he experienced and sees it. It contains short poems with a haiku slant, poems on politics and global warming, and poems of a philosophical slant on our subjective lives.