Scientific Marvel is poetic anti-gravity. Poetry of the lightest touch for the heftiest matters.

And so lit by its poet’s willingness to tarry with the things only poetry can illuminate, its music blooms with defiant wit. Sharp, pointed, and sage about the world and its endangered moving parts, the great reward of Undi’s meticulous attention is ours to reap, whether it is trained close to home or beyond. But even more, Undi has proven herself an exquisite and needful diarist of the inextricability of Black being from love, from freedom, from the tangled, hurtful web of this modern life. At the core of this book is always the heart-stirring necessity of surprise. A queerly marvelous debut!

— Canisia Lubrin, author of Code Noir

Press for Scientific Marvel:

• CBC Ideas: The Poetry of Why: poet Chimwemwe Undi on a lifetime of questions in verse

• Toronto Star: Four books of Canadian poetry to read this month, and soothe your soul

• Winnipeg Free Press: Vital verse

• Ms. Magazine: Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of ‘23 and ‘24

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