Category: Book spine poems

Note: This was originally posted on my blog The Thinking Meat Project in November 2014. The Human Cycle A gradual awakening, Moments of being, The voyage out in...

Note: This was originally posted in July 2015 on my blog The Thinking Meat Project. What finer way to spend a Saturday morning in summer than browsing the books...

  Life Is Everywhere Flesh and stone. Heart of the land, the life of the skies, the medusa and the snail. Red giants and white dwarfs. The fabric of the he...

Alone Time The stress response, The anatomy of melancholy. Home comforts. Solitude. The virtual community, the voices of silence, Where the roots reach for wate...

Reading Oh, the places you’ll go! Into the west, beyond the hundredth meridian. To the Finland station, PrairyErth, Istanbul, Alexandria, The pillars of Hercule...

Lives of the Trees Dream days beyond good and evil. Green darkness, Arcadia. Giants in the earth, Song of the sky, Plants that changed the world. Heart of the l...

The Library at Night Cosmos and history, metaphor and memory, Emblems of mind on paper. The origins of knowledge and imagination; The signal and the noise. Simp...

This book spine poem was inspired by American poet Robinson Jeffers, whose work I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. The Home Planet Wind in the rock, R...

What Is History? A backward glance, Gods, graves, and scholars. Noah’s flood, Hadrian’s memoirs, Napoleon’s buttons, Darwin’s century, E...