With an entirely new approach to poetry and the art of collage, Jessy Randall transforms diagrams, schematics, charts, graphs, and other visual documents from very old books into poems that speak to the absurdities, anxieties, and joys of life in this modern age.

How to Tell If You Are Human: Diagram Poems

Literature & Fiction

Randall, Jessy

Poetry

Pleiades Press

Poetry. Randall's poems have been hung from trees, etched into birdhouses, quoted in library advertisements, made into rock songs, and sold in gumball machines. In A DAY IN BOYLAND, her first collection of poems, vibrancy goes hand in hand with edgy romanticism, to bring forth a dreamy chronicle of the adventures and misadventures of contemporary life. "The charm of these poems wards off the past and the present, to take up residency in a primal, post-modern future: Boyland, in specific, a world of misheard Bjork, pears erupting from volcanoes, and children flying up the stairs to bed. You get seasick just standing still. These are the poems of the alien child of James Tate, Russell Edson, Richard Brautigan and Lee Upton. Four thumbs up"--Leonard Gontarek.

A Day in Boyland

Ghost Road Press

Poems about historical women in STEM fields.\nHilarious, heart-breaking, and perfectly pitched, these carefully researched poems about historical women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine will bring you to both laughter and outrage in just a few lines. A wickedly funny, feminist take on the lives and work of women who resisted their parents, their governments, the rules and conventions of their times, and sometimes situations as insidious as a lack of a women’s bathroom in a college science building.\nDiscover seashells by the seashore alongside Mary Anning and learn how Elizabeth Blackwell lost her eye. Read about Bertha Pallan’s side hustle in the circus, Honor Fell bringing a ferret to her sister’s wedding, Annie Jump Cannon cataloguing stars, Mary G. Ross stumping the panel on “What’s My Line?,” Alice Ball’s cure for leprosy, and Roberta Eike stowing away on a research vessel. Some of these poems celebrate women who triumphed spectacularly. Others remember women who barely survived.\nExplore the stories of women you may have heard of (Marie Curie, Jane Goodall, Émilie du Châtelet) alongside those of others you may not (Virginia Apgar, Maryam Mirzakhani, Ynes Mexia, Susan La Flesche Picotte, Chien-Shiung Wu). If you have come across Randall’s poems in Scientific American, Analog, or Asimov’s, you will have already opened the door to these tales, all the more extraordinary because they are true.\nIllustrated with Kristin DiVona’s portraits for NASA’s “Reaching Across the Stars” project, this is a book to share with scientists, feminists, and poets, young and old and of any gender.

Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science (Goldsmiths Press / Gold SF)

Goldsmiths Press

The Heartbeat of the Universe: Poems from Asimov’s Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2012–2022

Boston, Bruce

Aoki, Betsy

Lee, Mary Soon

Walrath, Holly Lyn

YOLEN, JANE

Hockaday, Emily

Baker, Stewart C

Frazier, Robert

Day, Holly L.

History & Criticism

Interstellar Flight Press

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