Einstein at the Odeon Cafe: Poems from the Big Table

by Jerri Beck, Suzanne Coker, Tom Gordon

The Big Table Poets take their name, literally, from the large table at the bookstore where they meet to critique their work and, figuratively, from the wide range of approaches to poetry that their work represents. The Big Table accommodates free verse and poetry in traditional forms, the lyrical, the meditative, and the narrative, low humor and high seriousness, all drawn from the diverse lives, experiences, interests, and obsessions of the Big Table Poets themselves. This diversity of approach continues with their latest anthology, Einstein at the Odeon Cafe, where the reader can expect the unexpected, for not Einstein at the blackboard, struggling with his equations, but Einstein before relativity, smoking cigars in a Swiss cafe, dreaming always of light, or the Einstein who gave up his first daughter Elise for adoption, a daughter who has been lost to history ever since.

48 pages, Paperback

First published March 20, 2009