“John Madera attends to the human condition with an acuity that expounds on our global bleakness, but he does this with such vitality, swing, and intelligence that one cannot despair of the world he conjures. In anarchy, he finds ‘bloom, / flow, plasticity, convivium’—and these poems model all that: argument and intimacy, outrage and a knotty, almost reluctant hope. Be prepared to move from a ‘chafing inscape’ into the wow/whoa/woe that constitutes the ‘quanta of love.’ The recursive lyricism of Nomad Science transforms the steep of a switchback trail into a textured horizon.”
—Elizabeth Robinson, author of many books, including Rumor, Excursive, and Vulnerability Index
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JOHN MADERA—Writer, Editor, Publisher 