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"Stop and Smell the Fractals (and Everything in Between) explores the connection between mathematics and poetry, focusing on patterns within the natural world and in everyday perceptions of life. Accessible to, math lovers, poetry lovers, non-mathematicians, and even self-defined ""math-haters,"" Stop and Smell the Fractals carries the reader through the human experiences of grief, peace, dissonance, joy, and everything in between, highlighting patterns within oneself and in one's surroundings. The collection, brought to life by Arkansas native Caroline Jennings, is narrative, confessional, and (hopefully) something everyone can relate to. In short, the Stop and Smell the Fractals sends that the message that math is everywhere, laced in the path of floating leaves on asphalt or lingering in the breath of an infant-you just have to find it."

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"Caroline Jennings' Stop and Smell the Fractals (And Everything In Between) is a striking chapbook. Jennings' poetry innovatively explores everyday life through the lens of one of our world's strongest foundations: mathematics. From equations to odes, poems approach complex moments with calculated candor. In ""Life as a Function Where x=Time,"" the poet tracks a young nephew's life along the X-axis. In ""Asymptote, a spine mimics a graphed line, blending the body with geometry. Stained glass windows appear as personified ""octagonal geometry"" in a cathedral. People's ""laughter blends into one uniform wave function."" This chapbook embarks on a gorgeous quest for the world's patterns and solutions while acknowledging the forces that complicate them. Caroline Jennings is a poet with a mathematician's eye and a generous artist's heart. Stop and Smell the Factals (And Everything In Between) is an important chapbook to read.-Elizabeth Muscari Tormenting geese, a stolen parking spot, stain glass from a cathedral's windows, the lack of precision in a nautilus shell, poor posture: in this chapbook, Caroline Jennings delivers a disarmingly earnest and often humorous study of a mind obsessed with the perfection proposed by mathematical equations. By the end, we learn her way of tolerating and trusting the insights of all that refuses to add up. As Jennings so movingly puts it in one these marveling poems, ""but I search anyway.""-Geffrey Davis"

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