By Miroslav Holub
via the Poetry Foundation
A Note from the Editor
Holub is one of the European poets most associated with scientific themes, not least because he was an immunologist. This poem is typically adroit, direct, simple, and profound. It celebrates science as a kind of cartography for life, but more than that, it speaks to how important revolutionary scientific thinking and discovery is to almost every aspect of our existence. - Guest Editors S.J. Fowler and Rebecca Kamen.
Source: Poems Before and After (Bloodaxe Books, 2006)
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