Saving St. Germ (35 page)

Carol Muske-Dukes is the author of eight books of poems, four novels, and two essay collections, and is an editor of two anthologies, including
Crossing State Lines: An American Renga
, which she coedited with Bob Holman. Many of her books have been New York Times Notable selections. Muske-Dukes is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Southern California, where she founded the PhD program in creative writing and literature, and she recently fulfilled her appointment as poet laureate of California, appointed by the governor’s office. Her poetry collection
Sparrow
was a National Book Award finalist and she is a six-time Pushcart Prize winner. She writes for the
New York Times Book Review
and the
New York Times
op-ed page, the
Los Angeles Times
, the Huffington Post, and the
New Yorker
’s
Page-Turner
blog. Her poems have been published and anthologized widely, including in several editions of
Best American Poetry
. Muske-Dukes has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Library of Congress award, Barnes & Noble’s Writer for Writers Award, and many other honors. She lives in Southern California and New York.

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Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint excerpts from the following copyrighted works:

An Introduction to Recombinant DNA, Second Edition,
by P. Hackett, J. Fuchs, and J. Messing (Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, 1988).

Letter from Mileva Marie to Albert Einstein from
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume I (The Early Years, 1879-1902)
, translated by Anna Peck, Princeton University Press.

Women in Science
by Marilyn Bailey Oglivie, The MIT Press.

“Power” from
The Fact of a Doorframe, Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984,
by Adrienne Rich. Reprinted by permission of the author and W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Copyright © 1981 by Adrienne Rich.

Rosalind Franklin and DNA
by Anne Sayre, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Copyright © 1993 by Carol Muske-Dukes

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Cover photo of pine resin magnified by an electron microscope courtesy of Annie Muske-Dukes

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