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""Kilbourne pushes back against . . . the carefully made museum with its curated forgetting, silences, and erasures, even the scientists (then and now) who could never have imagined someone like him turning his early calling not only into scientific study but also into poetry. Natural History is a marvel.""--Natasha Trethewey ""Brandon Kilbourne's poems move masterfully between the technical and the lyrical, from ancient fossils to modern museum halls, exploring how our understanding of nature is inseparable from our essential humanity. Through vivid imagery and careful attention to both biological detail and emotional experience, Natural History offers a luminous perspective on how we collect, classify, and make meaning of the natural world. These poems demonstrate the insights possible when scientific expertise meets poetic sensitivity, creating work that is both intellectually rigorous and deeply moving.""--Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish and Ends of the Earth

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Brandon Kilbourne has a PhD in evolutionary biology from the University of Chicago and over twenty years of experience as a research biologist at natural history museums. His poetry has appeared in Ecotone, Obsidian, Poet Lore, and elsewhere.

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