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In the foreword to her poetry collection Late in the Day Ursula K. Le Guin writes: “Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe.” Clare Goulet’s lichen poems are unusual in that they do both – at the same time. This is possible because Goulet approaches the lichens from at least three angles at once: as a poet, an amateur lichenologist, and a lichen historian. This threefold attentiveness makes her poems multimodal, never settling on a single way of understanding.
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