For Want of the Golden City

New and collected poems and translations by Betty Roszak, with original cover artwork and interior drawings by the author. Includes the audio-texts Starbirth and The Crest of the East Pacific Rise, poetic evocations of recent scientific discoveries that she has presented in performance for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and conferences on art and science in the U.S., Denmark, and England. The collection also includes her poem, Global Ocean Flux, commissioned for Aspects of Climate Variability in the Pacific and the Western Americas, Geophysical Monograph 55, by the American Geophysical Union. Her translations include poems by Neruda and Goethe.