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Entanglements: Physics, love, and wilderness dreams by Jack Mayer is a 2023 Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite in the category of Poetry. Read more about this award
“Jack Mayer is the pediatrician and poet that I always wanted to be. From his early days as a new doctor caring for the rural poor along the Vermont/Canada border to his present life as a senior citizen still hiking the Long Trail and striving to understand the beauty, love, and loss that comprise the world, Mayer has distinguished himself by bringing a discerning and questioning mind and eye to his environment…”
— Michael Epstein, Harvard Medical School, Founder, www.EpsteinReads.com (Bookmarks).
Jack Mayer introduces this collection with thought-provoking insights into and definitions of his subject: "Whether or not there is a point to our existence, and whatever that point might be, we nevertheless strive for elegance, perfection, beauty, and contentment. Relationships seem to be the matrix in which we endeavor to understand. We are entangled."
Middlebury poet and pediatrician Jack Mayer has published another collection of poetry. “Entanglements: Physics, love, and wilderness dreams” is now available at The Vermont Book Shop in downtown Middlebury.
Addison Independent - November 10, 2022 By Elsie Lynn Parini
Author Jack Mayer was recently interviewed by VT Digger: “How did German democracy collapse and give rise to Nazism?”
Jack Mayer recently won the Proverse Prize 2019 for his new book of poems “Poems From the Wilderness.” Listen to his acceptance speech.
PEDIATRICIAN/POET JACK Mayer recently won the Proverse Prize 2019 for his new book of poems “Poems From the Wilderness.” Join him on a live Zoom reading and discussion on Thursday, Dec. 3 hosted by The Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury. Read the full article for the story on what inspired this book.
“. . . the lyricism of his poetry reaches out, the secular becomes spiritual as the wilderness embraces, evolving from the prosaic details of his world view, he catches
…a glimpse.
of the ineffable, the ephemeral, the everlasting,
trying to reckon which is which.’
—5 Star Review by the Manhattan Book Review
“This moving collection of poems immerses the reader in the natural world and expounds on the solace and solitude that comes from hiking countless miles on trails through wilderness, mountains, and forests…. With stunning imagery, his poems transport the reader to a world of trees, plants, and birds through the seasons…. Fans of poet Mary Oliver will find a similar voice extolling nature in the author’s poetry.”
—RECOMMENDED by the US Review of Books
“Readers of Walt Whitman, Thoreau, and other nature writers well know the power of nature on the contemplative literary voyager who would survey the wilderness with an eye to rejuvenating soul and perspective. These audiences will especially appreciate Mayer's attention to connecting natural with human affairs…”
— Midwest Book Review
Now through November listen to award-winning author Jack Mayer read a poem from his latest book, Poems from the Wilderness on YouTube!
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