Brain Slivers

Author: Nelson Sartoris

Published: 2016
Publisher: Ars Poetica, Division of Pisgah Press
Available for Purchase: Amazon; Barnes & Noble
Genre: Poetry
Author's Note: I spent most of my life in a world seemingly far removed from poetry. I earned my Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Northwestern University. For 37 years I was a Professor of Organic Chemistry.  Since retiring and moving to Asheville, NC, in 2005, I have taken over 120 courses at OLLI and began writing poetry after taking a poetry writing class a couple years ago. Perhaps my two realms of organic chemistry and poetry are not as disparate as they might seem at first glance. To quote Ernest Borek, “Science is the poetry of the intellect. Organic chemistry contains some of the noblest, yet least appreciated, passages in the collected volumes of the poetry of the human mind.”
OLLI Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Asheville – Member and Instructor