Stellar Atmospheres

The poems in Sometimes's collection deftly transcend both spatial scales and time scales. From one line to another, we careen across the universe. We fast-forward from the first picosecond of stuff forming in the universe to a Christmas card, millennia later.

Her depiction of time and dynamism is visceral; things froth and whizz and quiver in a temporospatial-grammatical practice. We become aware of the minutiae of a life, and of a language, against both vast and infinitesimal phenomena in the universe.

Sometimes has written the celestial subjectively— or is it the subjective celestially?— and smears the lines between the practices of cosmology, poetry, and astrophysics. After reading this collection, it seems to me like poetry is as valid a method of interrogating the universe as any other. Stellar Atmospheres is a remarkable fusion of science and art.

Stellar Atmospheres by Alicia Sometimes invites readers to re-experience the universe with a poet's eye and an astronomer's curiosity. - Andrea Rassell