The Nomenclature of Small Things

"Here are poems quietly wise, beautiful, beguiling, and enriched by the peculiarities and spectacularities of science. Guiding them is a poet tough-skinned by tenderhearted. In giving accounts of a wide array of ALIVE-in-our-world, Lynn Pedersen's poems shimmer. And among the multitudes of creatures, wwe find grief to be but another animal "that can depart and return with a soft shudder of feathers." These are poems to save and/or devour."