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'We are all detectives. We eavesdrop. We are all wired to ask questions. One of the most primordial, intrinsic needs of humans is to comprehend the world and to communicate that understanding. Poetry and science have grown up together as siblings. For millennia we have stretched out our hands to the night sky and wondered where we have come from. Poetry and science are our way into wonder. They are closer together than they are apart. Early poets like Lucretius or Virgil wrote about science in reverence. We have read many poems and seen magnificent art on all kinds of science: topography, neuroscience, meteorology, engineering, microbes, cosmology. We read a poem and run to the science to know more. We look at the stars and run inside to write a poem. We have always wanted to push further our boundary of knowledge, connect with the environment and metaphorically lasso a galaxy or two while we’re at it.' (Introduction)
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