BIOCHEMISTRY for POETS LIVING in a CELL - Paperback

by Hari Hyde (Author)

What is Life? We envision that we are mutually alive with the nucleic acids, proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates that dwell in our bodies. Though biomolecules allegedly abide in lives aligned with our consciousness, we sense these tiny imps warily conceal paramount truths. A veteran of three decades as a research director in biotechnology companies, Dr. Hari Hyde reimagines the uncharted adventures of life's foremost artistes.

What is Life? A biochemist mischievously reimagines the lives of the cell's biomolecules. We fancy that we are reciprocally alive with the proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and lipids inhabiting our bodies. Yet we can sense that paramount insights―vital truths that the biomolecules warily guard from our scrutiny―still elude us.

Hari Hyde is also the author of The Honeygate Chronicles, an allegorical, fantasy adventure trilogy. Many readers who loved the lyrical style of those fables, Our Brain, Our Other, and Our Heart, forecast Hari Hyde's pilgrimage into poetry. Following Unbathed Brains: Poems from Minnesota and the Milky Way and Minnesota Poems from the Outposts, Hari's new prose-poetry collection (vignettes in verse) imagines the world of a cell's biomolecules, entities who abide in lives curiously parallel to our own. Dr. Hyde served as a research director in the biotechnology industry for three decades. Hari's research projects encompassed liaisons with most of the biomolecules reimagined in this book.