Unsound Science

Robert Sonkowskys creative second-grade teacher Miss Malarkey in Appleton Wisconsin was his first love. She taught spelling by asking her pupils to compose stories and poems from the spelling-word-lists and to read them aloud standing before the class. As a shy young boy and future actor and poet he enjoyed already then speaking non-autobiographically with what would one day become a Stanislavskian basis in the imagination of real life.Robert remembers two lines from the poem he wrote for Miss Malarkey about a MONSTER: In a laboratory dim a mad scientist created him.Now seventy years later he uses the phrase mad scientist and the implied abstraction mad science (= unsound science ? see page X) as the title and broadly inclusive theme of the present selection of his poems. These range from the childhood spookiness of that monster poem to allusions to real science with a lot in between including love and even religion; from strictly formal verse to free verse always with high regard for oral reading.After grade school he graduated continuously through Appletons Mckinley School Appleton High School Lawrence College; the Universities of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and of Rome (Italy); post-doctoral positions at the Universities of Texas Missouri Wisconsin and finally Minnesota where he is Professor Emeritus of Classics and Theatre.His acting career includes credits at The Attic Theater (Appleton) Lawrence College Theater Carolina Playmakers (Chapel Hill) Durham Theater Guild Indian Mound Theater (Berea Kentucky) Tidewater Drama Theater (Virginia Beach Virginia) University of Minnesota Theater several small Minneapolis theaters The Guthrie Theater Theatre de la Jeune Lune La Hoya Playhouse.For details academic and theatrical see Wikipedia; his agents website http://www.wehmann.com/profile.php?id=483 his University resume http://cnes.cla.umn.edu/people/profile.php?UID=sonko001.