Michael Gottlieb

If Michael Gottlieb’ s language is familiar, it is because he places his voice in conversation with generations of New York’ s poets, pop culture, and commercial branding. Everything from O’ Hara-esque exclamations and Ashberian experiments with syntax to Looney Tunes and commercial airliners’ rehearsed landing speech— “ all the honeyed demarches/ adoring our table talk” — is filtered through a dynamic and utilitarian optimism. Addressing the ills of our contemporary moment, he frames poetry as “ a current coursing through the crowd” and poets themselves as vital engineers of utopian thinking.

Feynman's Tips on Physics is a delightful collection of Richard P. Feynman's insights and an essential companion to his legendary Feynman Lectures on Physics With characteristic flair, insight, and humour, Feynman discusses topics physics students often struggle with and offers valuable tips on addressing them. Included here are three lectures on problem-solving and a lecture on inertial guidance omitted from The Feynman Lectures on Physics . An enlightening memoir by Matthew Sands and oral history interviews with Feynman and his Caltech colleagues provide firsthand accounts of the origins of Feynman's landmark lecture series. Also included are incisive and illuminating exercises originally developed to supplement The Feynman Lectures on Physics , by Robert B. Leighton and Rochus E. Vogt. Feynman's Tips on Physics was co-authored by Michael A. Gottlieb and Ralph Leighton to provide students, teachers, and enthusiasts alike an opportunity to learn physics from some of its greatest teachers, the creators of The Feynman Lectures on Physics .

"Lost and Found by Michael Gottlieb stresses the 9/11 poetry genre to the limit. In “ The Dust” he lists with clenched jaw items found in the rubble of the downed Twin Towers, moving from computer terminals and memos to the names of individuals who died in the collapse, driving through his list with all the impact of the most intense lyric poem. But Lost and Found goes beyond 9/11 to the rest of the world, exposing the situation we find ourselves in, a droll conversation of partially identified yet fully understandable characters: “ how much smaller may we dice you” . No poet writing today captures the immediate sense of being caught off guard. Lost and Found is a read-this-&-change-your-life experience: the first great poetic work to emerge from the trauma of September 11. Imagine Frank O’ Hara channeling Teodor Adorno with more than a little Marcel Duchamp to modulate the static into a whitenoise reverb feedback loop. It is, in fact, just like that & completely different: three radical works that test our limits as readers & as people. Michael Gottlieb’ s masterwork is one terrific book." -Ron Silliman