Figuring (LA Times Book Prize Winner) Poetry_Gift_Guide who comes riding into their

who comes riding into their lives

powerful memoir

Who cut off Medusa's head

of making poetry from subtle suggestion

technically perfect cakes and understand why the ingredients in cakes work the way they do

Figuring (LA Times Book Prize Winner) Poetry_Gift_Guide who comes riding into theirNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE AND BOOKPAGE Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuriesbeginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the environmental movement. Stretching between these figures