I’ve long loved Lisa Russ Spaar’s luminous, sensuous, luxurious writing, which is marvelously attuned to the protean and sometimes bewildering movements of body and mind, and to where the “borders” between them dissolve, so you can imagine how delighted I am to share Spaar’s advance praise for Nomad Science (Spuyten Duyvil Press), my forthcoming collection of poetry:
“John Madera’s Nomad Science shimmers with an irresistible, “problem child” American numen, by turns casting light and shade on, awe and indictment toward the vicissitudes, atrocities, and wonderments of the Anthropocene—upon empire, violence, technology, the cosmos, love, and language itself. Is there a philosopher, musician, phenomenologist, scientist, historian, astrologer, or writer with whom Madera hasn’t danced in his poetry’s search for meaning in the inconceivable? ‘I am there,’ Madera writes, ‘wording things into being / And counting the days, declaring it all good because it is: / It is all good, because it has been worded from wasn’t / Into is.’ Nomad Science is the news feed, the bloom scroll we’ve never needed more.”
—Lisa Russ Spaar, author of many books, including Madrigalia: New & Selected Poems, Paradise Close, and Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry
JOHN MADERA—Writer, Editor, Publisher 