Weird Science

by Christina Olson

"coelacanths + velvet worms + horseshoe crabs, oh my ..." from the author via Twitter on Oct. 24, 2015

Genres: Poetry

32 pages, Paperback

Published February 12, 2016

About the author

Christina Olson's poetry and nonfiction has appeared in Arts & Letters, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, Brevity, River Styx, Gulf Coast, Passages North, The Normal School, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and The Best Creative Nonfiction, Volume 3. She teaches creative writing at Georgia Southern University.

Reviews

[Ruth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Picked this up on a whim in a bookstore because I loved the cover and the couple of poems I skimmed seemed interesting. An enjoyable range of poetry, very much in my wheelhouse... and several about one's father aging and dying, which really fit with what I needed this year.

[Chris - Quarter Press Editor · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Olson's poetry.

Her other work is fantastic in its biographical and human nature, and this is equally so, as she explores various oddities in the natural world, creating poems wondrous, humorous, and haunting-rous, all at the same time.

[Phillip · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very cool collection of poetry, which blends the scientific with the personal and interpersonal, linking the human need to understand the world and to discover new things with the ways in which we as humans experience ourselves in the world and in connection with others.
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