A Different Physics
With sensitivity, grace, and artistic deftness, the poems in Lisa Rosenberg’s A Different Physics ache with the understanding that our modes of knowing the world—theoretical, mathematical, lingual—open as much distance as insight…
Red Mountain press poetry book prize
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American Legacy
Book Award for Poetry
…Rosenberg’s poems meet at the crux of so many of our contemporary concerns: How do we maintain wonder for the elemental when so intent on molding it for our purposes? How do we keep faith in ourselves in the face of our own failures? By uncovering a haunting sense of fragility and impermanence in something as steadfastly stony as the fossil record, Rosenberg both records and celebrates the ways we know and open frames that have the potential to become joyous “through every season, and in every light.” — Irena Praitis, 2017 Red Mountain Poetry Prize Judge
ANTHOLOGIES
WAVES: A Confluence of Women’s Voices, AROHO Foundation, Diane Gilliam, Ed., 2023
Double Take: Art & Literature Side by Side, Diane Glancola and Cynthia Patton, Eds., 2022
California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology, Molly Fisk, Ed., 2020
The POETRY Anthology: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine, Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young, Eds., 2004
Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry Website, Diane Boller et al, 2003
SELECTED POEMS
— San Francisco Chronicle (originally in The Threepenny Review)
— Plume
— Bad Lilies
— The Inflectionist Review
“Introduction to Methods of Mathematical Physics”
— POETRY Magazine
— POETRY Magazine
— The Common
— Poets Reading the News (with audio)
— The Waves Anthology
— InMenlo
— The Night Heron Barks (with audio)
— POETRY Magazine
“Night Fire” and “Woman from Fire”
— POETRY Magazine
SELECTED ESSAYS, MEMOIR, SATIRE
— The Common
— Amsterdam Quarterly
“This Is Just To Say: Toward a Poetics of Discovery”
— Organizational Aesthetics
— Periodicities
— Terrain.org
— Slackjaw
Boba Fett Opens Eponymous Tea House
— Fanfare
It’s Gratuitous Expletive Season, Fornicators
— The Satirist
PRESS
“...Winners and Finalists of the 2024 American Legacy Book Awards.”
— April 26, 2024 American Book Fest
“...when I read The Skies Have It, I forget momentarily everything falling.”
— JAN. 31, 2020, The Night Heron Barks
“…writing that gleams with subtlety, grace, precision, and high attention to craft…a terrific book, readers—timely and timeless—don’t miss it!”
— OCT. 13, 2019 WOMEN’S VOICES FOR CHANGE
“Lisa Rosenberg’s poetry challenges the myth that the arts and sciences don’t mix.”
— MARCH 29, 2018 STATE LINES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
“The rigor necessary for the scientific understanding can complement and expand the wonder that accompanies people of faith, or can stand on its own as it bestows pleasure and knowledge. A different physics indeed.”
— SEPT. 17, 2018 THE RUMPUS
“Red Mountain Press awards an annual prize of $1000 and publication of a full length poetry book. This year the Poetry Prize went to Lisa Rosenberg for A DIFFERENT PHYSICS.”
— OCTOBER 1, 2017 RED MOUNTAIN PRESS
“Scientist poet Lisa Rosenberg is named Poet Laureate of San Mateo County.”
— NOVEMBER 11, 2016 INMENLO
“Rosenberg’s Poems meet at the crux of so many of our contemporary concerns”
— Irena Praitis, 2017 Red Mountain Poetry Prize judge
