Working Where Poems Are Lurking

This book of verse contains maybe 70 poems that are humorous and lighthearted. Typical categories are nature, housekeeping, literary notes and personal thoughts. The author being a chemist tends to combine humor with specific scientific facts that are educational and mind-bending. She has recently written a book of biographical sketches on famous scientists from Copernicus to Einstein. She has also published a book on Enrico Fermi for high school age children. So many experiences in...
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This book of verse contains maybe 70 poems that are humorous and lighthearted. Typical categories are nature, housekeeping, literary notes and personal thoughts. The author being a chemist tends to combine humor with specific scientific facts that are educational and mind-bending. She has recently written a book of biographical sketches on famous scientists from Copernicus to Einstein. She has also published a book on Enrico Fermi for high school age children. So many experiences in the scientific field blend with her sense of humor as she elucidates a discovery in modern science or completes a clever turn of events that both inform and inspire. Relax and enjoy a chemist's perspective on today's cosmopolitan worker who is busy, tied inextricably to his i-phone, aware of the necessity for self-fitness and pacing, and conscious of the importance of reading newspapers and occasionally a good book. Reading print will make you articulate. Reading Erica Stux's modern-day poems will make you think.