Make Room for Growth

The Universe in Verse uniquely blends science and poetry, interweaving nonfiction stories with illustrated poems from Emily Dickinson to W.H. Auden. Both verse and the pursuit of knowledge are deeply intrinsic, visible, and human in this collection. Popova sums this up well: “It may be that art is simply what we call our most constructive coping mechanism for the incomprehension of life and mortality.”