Lunde’s work paints an always fantastic, often tender, and occasionally frightening portrait of humanity’s place among the stars, where black holes resemble Shakespeare characters, subatomic love stories rise out of quantum foam, and stars live and die just like us. Whether exploring bacterial empires or brewing the first beer on Mars, Lunde’s verses are delivered with a humor, wit, and charm that is sure to satisfy science fiction devotees and poetry lovers alike.
The Monday I first hear the body count my father would've just turned sixty-four. Rocking the baby
The first stanza of the title poem from Nostalgia for a World Where We Can Live (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018) by Monica Berlin ’95, Knox College professor of English.
by Monica Berlin '95