Mayer’s new poetry collection, Entanglements: Physics, Love, and Wilderness Dreams, is inspired by relationships and how quantum physics illuminates our connections. Every sub-atomic particle exists only in relationship to another. It seems that everything in the cosmos is dependent on interconnection.
A pediatrician reflects on the mysteries of our entanglements from the macroscopic experience of his practice in rural Vermont to the inconceivably old, small, and far away of quantum cosmology. These poems have marinated in wilderness hiking where they are composed and infused with the singular mindfulness of a hushed forest. There are no equations. You need not understand quantum theory to appreciate the mysteries explored, and the connections affirmed.
About the Author:
Jack Mayer, from Middlebury, is the author of Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project (Long Trail Press, 2011) non-fiction about a forgotten Holocaust hero, Irena Sendler, who rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto and the historical fiction, Before the Court of Heaven (Long Trail Press, 2015) about the rise of the Third Reich. His first poetry collection, Poems From the Wilderness (Proverse, 2019) is a collection of poems composed while solo hiking Vermont’s Long Trail—poems inspired by wilderness immersion.
To learn more about Jack Mayer and his writing please visit his website.