Stephanie Strickland is a poet living in New York City. She has published eight volumes of print poetry and co-authored eleven digital poems.
"Erudite—the word might be hurled at a poet as an insult, meant to
suggest dull, arcane knowledge and lack of accessibility. In
Strickland's case, however, erudite is a term of praise. For ideas
and facts stud her poetry like so many gleaming jewels, yet they
never tarnish the gold of human experience from which the poems are
wrought. Take the trope of the title poem, for instance: beginning
with the difference between magnetic and true north, Strickland
launches into an exploration of the forces of love, until the
metaphor links science and the heart so tightly that they are
inseparable. Strickland's language is not easy; it is full of
citations and allusions and sometimes dense with wordplay. But the
force of her passion for ideas and for human connection sustains
each poem." —Patricia Monaghan
“Strickland is a thrilling poet. She is a ‘rapt observer’ of
shimmering worlds, in and out, and of the long story of human
savagery, civility, and intelligence. She shines and dives across
the air of many worlds. . . . Rooted in her sense of the profound
voluptuous, she is a powerful ‘fabulist of what we are.’”—Marie
Ponsot, author of The Bird Catcher
"In these poems specialized vocabularies—drawn from science,
linguistics, history, mathematics—move in and out of each other in
a radical remaking of language. The volume is a tour de force, and
exhilarating to read." —The Women's Review of Books
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