Turn Thanks Steven Parvez Rashid everyone knows the feeling of

everyone knows the feeling of spotting something beautiful among a seemingly infinite array of colors and shapes dotting the shoreline

This book presents sociological answers to questions like these

and through writing and publishing a thesis

Loath to Print explains how quickly a gap opened between those with scientific knowledge and a lay public-and how such a gap persists today

Sumaya Shanoub

Turn Thanks Steven Parvez Rashid everyone knows the feeling ofThe lyric energy, compassion, humor, and tenderness that characterize Lorna Goodison's work are once again in evidence in Turn Thanks, her seventh collection. Here the Jamaican poet turns to acknowledge her own ancestors and those of her craft: mother and father, aunts and uncles, Africa, William Wordsworth, Vincent Van Gogh, the Wild Woman. ''Whether you will receive this letter or not I cannot tell,'' she writes. ''Still, I intend to send it . . . ''