‘A poem that draws on the sciences may sometimes start with a thought or subject far from science—but science then offers the image, metaphor, naming vocabulary that opens a door that poem needed to find.’
Jane Hirshfield’s ninth poetry book, Ledger (Knopf/Bloodaxe, March 2020), centers on the crises of biosphere and social justice. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the founder of Poets For Science, she was elected in 2019 to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
