And Yet It Moves
Gallagher, Kevin In And Yet It Moves, the poet is an archeologist of mourning rediscovering that
assaults on science and reason are not new phenomenon. Gallagher follows
Petrarch who spawns a new lyric in part inspired by lost texts, and who motivates
'book hunters' of the Renaissance to search for the buried as well. The world
changed when Poggio Bracciolini discovered Lucretius' On the Nature of Things in
a Benedictine library. Lucretius' poem is a meditatio...