My Science

Author: Rachelle Toarmino

Publisher: Sixth Finch (2025)

In My Science, Toarmino limns out her most recent iteration of her ongoing practice of variations on 21st century lyric, the reclamation of lyric form that is equally informed by immersion in the 21st century vernacular and linguistic patterns shaped by the dominant technologies of our era and her deep reading of a wide swath of 20th century poetics—from conceptualist poetries and the language writing movement, to projective verse, confessional poetry (and the reactions to it)—and the entire valence of the lyric voice in the American poetry from the modernists to its 19th century progenitors Dickinson and Whitman.