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...poet is still experimenting with style in this chapbook. If the poems weren't collected under a certain name, you might not guess that they all come from the same writer because Miriam Sagan hasn't settled into a recognizable tone of voice or mode of diction yet. Her work is compiled largely of images. From the careful control she maintains over each of these, it is evident that she is attuned to the way words balance one another. Sometimes this sense shows through as long as the poem lasts. A structure may emerge that is based on poetic techniques...
...themes that "I" or "we" favors: themes like the sea, a woman's sexuality, a sort of science-fictionalized view of the world, the family history and tawdry yet mysterious American middle- or working-class culture. These themes hold small clumps of otherwise disparate poems together while Sagan is trying out styles of writing. They provide, at least, a way of fitting her work together which makes the overview possible in a collection more satisfying than a chance encounter with her verse in, say, Mademoiselle, Samisdat magazine or The Harvard Advocate (where 11 of this selection of 16 poems have...
...Carl Sagan Ithaca...
Professor of astronomy and space sciences and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, Dr. Sagan is the author of The Cosmic Connection...
...Some of the other most recognizable scientists: Jonas Salk, Wernher von Braun, William Shockley, Edward Teller, Rene Dubos, Glenn Seaborg, Carl Sagan...