In And Yet It Moves, the poet is an archeologist of mourning rediscovering that assaults on science and reason are not new phenomenon. Gallagher follows Petrarch who spawns a new lyric in part inspired by lost texts, and who motivates 'book hunters' of the Renaissance to search for the buried as well. The world changed when Poggio Bracciolini discovered Lucretius' On the Nature of Things in a Benedictine library. Lucretius'...