Poetry. The rhythmically grounded, formally varied poems of Lisa Rosenberg's second collection invite possibilities of kinship and transformation in the dichotomies that surround us, whether fantastic or ordinary, subatomic or cosmic in scale: odes to Pi and snowflake formation; meditations on urchins and orbital mechanics, and an interwoven series of uncanny prose poems for resilient plants. Weeds and Stars brings into deeper bloom what Robert Pinsky hailed in Rosenberg's debut: poetry "with an informed vision that is social as well as scientific, personal as well as historical." Weeds and Stars engages with the tropes and expectations of Western lyric poetry, and the speaker that emerges is by turns wry, off-kilter, and playful, inviting us to reconsider agency and interconnectedness-feather to fire, plants to politics, Old Glory to accretion disks.