• 0 items$0.00

Alan Squire Publishing

A Small Press With Big Ideas

  • Home
  • Authors
  • Books
  • Events
  • ASP Bulletin
  • Submissions
  • Reviews/Press
    • Legacy Series
  • Staff
  • FB
  • Twitter
  • IG
Home / archive / Featured Audio: “Chaos Theory,” a poem by Elizabeth Hazen

Aug 17 2018

Elizabeth Hazen reads "Chaos Theory"

"She harnesses the atoms and molecules of poetry like a Tesla coil, attuned to the science of our everyday lives, and leaves us sadder, wiser, and the better for it." Richard Peabody

"All it takes for things to turn is a blip." The first-page poem from Elizabeth Hazen's debut collection, Chaos Theories, is a rumination on the reductive power of the human mind when facing grief, and the language we have developed in labs and classrooms to facilitate it. Recognizing laws and theories as little webs of possibility, as impossibly complex addenda to what philosophers call causal reasoning, is a sobering experience, especially when the western instinct is toward the unstable separative powers of reason. Reasoning away grief is like prying water from a rock face with your fingernails, but companionship and empathy is as swift as the click of a mouse here

Hear Elizabeth Hazen read "Chaos Theory"

Chaos Theory

Chaos Theories by Elizabeth Hazen (cover)
Check Out Chaos theories

More from Liz

Elizabeth Hazen Describes the “Girls Like Us” Menu with Lesley Wheeler

March 30, 2020

An Interview with Elizabeth Hazen, Baltimore Poet and Baker Award Finalist

February 25, 2019

Featured Poetry: “Winter Funeral” by Elizabeth Hazen

January 15, 2019

Elizabeth Hazen to Read at Reston’s Used Book Shop

January 1, 2019

Featured Poetry: “Burial at Shanidar” by Elizabeth Hazen

November 30, 2018

Elizabeth Hazen sits down with Elizabeth Spires to discuss her new Poetry Collection, “A Memory of the Future”

August 26, 2018

[Elizabeth Hazen] “Thanatosis” selected for Best American Poetry 2013, an interview and debrief (Fishbowl)

August 8, 2018

Featured Audio: “Maxwell’s Demon,” a poem by Elizabeth Hazen

July 31, 2018

[Elizabeth Hazen] Lessons From a Turtle (Fishbowl)

July 27, 2018

Waiting for Maxwell’s Demon

April 9, 2018

Written by Alan Squire Publishing · Categorized: archive

© Copyright 2023 Alan Squire Publishing. All Rights Reserved. Website by Sara Chandlee. Graphic design by Dewitt Designs