Song of Two Worlds - Hardcover

Physicist and author Alan Lightman s latest work is a book-length poem. In Song of Two Worlds, he writes from the perspective of a man reassessing his life after a tragedy. Lightman splits his epic into two sections; in the first, he marvels at the measurable world, the glory of geometry and fact. In the second, he explores the unmeasurable, the pleasure and pain of love, the beauty of a sunset and the night sky --Nature vol 461 29-10-2009

Full of context, atmosphere, and vivid imagery, and yet ultimately abstract, Song of Two Worlds shows us a serious, passionate man who straddles the worlds of scientific and poetic enterprise. We feel the consolations of the mathematical line and we feel the seductions of the strummed chord of the oud, and between these we feel the altogether human pressure to make a whole life out of our fragmented, multiple universe. --Poetry Review Spring 2010