Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Releases 2nd Book, Framing Physics Through Poetry and Cultural Roots
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Updated · The New York Times · May 13
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Releases 2nd Book, Framing Physics Through Poetry and Cultural Roots
2 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 13
April 7 marked the release of Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s second book, “The Edge of Space-Time,” which she discussed with The New York Times during a multicity tour.
The new book shifts from the pain and inequity foregrounded in her 2021 debut toward a more playful exploration of the cosmic questions that first drew her to physics.
Poetry is central to that approach: Prescod-Weinstein said she knew poetry before physics, cites Langston Hughes in both subtitles, and describes equations as sentences that tell stories.
At a Chicago event, the University of New Hampshire cosmologist said the book reclaims the original dream for her first project while tying physics to her own cultural inheritance.
The release extends Prescod-Weinstein’s effort to present cosmology as both scientific inquiry and a shared human story about the universe.
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