Museum Science Fiction and four children who are

and four children who are all too happy to be rid of their parents

and he uses sand talk

like the sun coming up and new babies being born

our knowledge systems

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Museum Science Fiction and four children who areFor many years, poet Frances Samuel worked at a museum, writing the text for exhibitions. In her new book she redefines the notion of a museum, making it infinite and wild. Like freewheeling thought experiments, Samuel s poems blur the lines between material and immaterial, natural and supernatural, to funny and surreal effect. Objects of significance include water bears and tornadoes, ancient penguins and robots, and a paper cut skeleton that walks