From the Edge of Chaos and Form
From the Edge of Chaos and Form

Author(s): Lynne Goldsmith
Subject(s): Poetry
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Fiction; Poetry; English, environment; Lynne; Goldsmith; poems; Poetry;
Summary/Abstract: From the Edge of Chaos and Form takes a glimpse into the lives, imaginings, and interactions of humans, animals, and nature. The poems offer snapshots of beauty alongside more forbidding realities of our human existence on the planet, both past and present. The poems glimpse literal and metaphorical edges of change in a galaxy of spectacular structure as well as chance and random happenings beyond any human involvement. But as humans disturb and destroy–in pattern-like behavior–different forms of life, human and natural realms consequently alter. Beauty and ruin, order and chaos, control and surrender, humanity and cruelty, preservation and annihilation coexist and hold on to one another in a kind of opposition and attraction that has each side becoming like the “other” once a threshold has been crossed in what’s known in part as chaos theory. “Preface Edward Lorenz, meteorologist, professor and mathematician, discovered that seemingly insignificant motions/change can activate huge outcomes. His ‘butterfly effect’ (with the flap of a butterfly wing later causing a tornado in a distant location) illustrates the notion of chaos theory with future predictions being practically impossible and chaotic systems being non-linear, such as seen in the weather where no two weather days or snowflake designs are ever quite replicated. Emergence is a system created from the actions of individual parts that are supposedly lacking any central plan. Yet hidden within the chaos that is everywhere, surprising patterns are found.”

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