The Drake Equation
Hoge, Brad
A poetry collection by educator & scientist Dr. Brad Hoge.
The claim that eschewing knowledge allows us to better appreciate beauty is a troubling yet common refrain in modern poetry, the idea that we have lost our innocence and connection to the beauty of nature as we have become more sophisticated and dependent on scientific inquiry. Though there is some value in the motivation for the preceding claim, my poetry explores the expansion of opp...