The most recent book from one of my always favorite poets, Pattiann Rogers.
Ms. Rogers has published eleven books of poetry; two book-length essay collections, The Dream of the Marsh Wren and The Grand Array; and A Covenant of Seasons, poems and monotypes, in collaboration with Joellyn Duesberry. She is the recipient of two NEA grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Award for poetry. She lives in Colorado.
Read the title poem here in American Scientist
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/holy-heathen-rhapsody
Buy Holy Heathen Rhapsody
https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Heathen-Rhapsody-Penguin-Poets/dp/0143123882
Praise for Holy Heathen Rhapsody
“I believe Pattiann Rogers walks the world at night when we are sleeping. Her poems are translations of our dreaming life—what we know to be true but fail to remember. We read her words, sentence by sentence, image by image, and return to all that is beautiful, mysterious, and erotic.”
—Terry Tempest Williams
“Pattiann Rogers is a visionary of reality, perceiving the material world with such intensity of response that impulse, intention, meaning, interconnections beyond the skin of appearance are revealed. Her language, unmarred by clichés, springs up out of a sense of how various and endlessly amazing are the forms of life and the human ability to notice them.”
—Denise Levertov
“How the densely detailed, thickly textured, imaged stanzas of Pattiann Rogers result in so much light-as-air wonderment is surely one of the greater questions—one of the greater magics—of contemporary poetry. But however it happens, we must be thankful—for both the science text and the psalter of her work, for both the physical abundance and for the spirit flimmering over it.”
—Albert Goldbarth
Read More from Ms. Rogers Online
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/pattiann-rogers#about
http://www.terrain.org/2014/poetry/two-poems-by-pattiann-rogers/
https://orionmagazine.org/poetry/pattiann-rogers-poem/
https://imagejournal.org/article/speak-rain/
Interviews
http://www.missourireview.com/anthology/interview-with-pattiann-rogers
http://www.pw.org/content/interview_poet_pattiann_rogers?cmnt_all=1
Ms. Rogers on Merging Science and Poetry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gicNcqk08Pk
http://www.cennamology.com/home/pattiann-rogers-review-merging-poetry-science-and-philosophy
Reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vBelOceSMA
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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