The poems in "The Physics Tree" are atypical and certainly not characteristic of today s contemporary poetry. Author M. Parise eloquently shatters the paradigm that art and science work at cross-purposes. Instead, these poems fittingly represent a stellar unification of physics and poetry. A skillful Language poet, Parise uses words in unexpected and powerful ways, deftly creating allegories that reflect scientific phenomena and our human-emotional reaction to them. Parise s poetry is an ingenious communication of complex realities immediate, stylistically varied, and humbling. Cerebral, intense (and at times amusing), the work reveals the mind s encounter with a universe infinitely more complex than ever imagined.
The poems unveil one phenomenal mystery after another, as the author sets forth the beginning of a new task for poetry: to define our world, our universe, and explore physics as it relates to human consciousness. Read this book and brace yourself for a new era in literature."