Difficult stuff, poetry. Easy stuff, verse. At least editor Kurt Brown’s
Verse & Universe knows its limitations. Try this: “Neutrinos, they are very
small./They have no charge and have no mass/And do not interact at all./The
earth is just a silly ball/To them . . .” It’s from a piece by John Updike, in
which he mocks those who say science is wonderful (“I call it crass”). Perhaps a
little tactless in an art-embraces-science endeavour. Published by Milkweed,
$15.95, ISBN 1571314075.
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