When Lightning Strikes (Nikola’s Dove) Poems
When Lightning Strikes (Nikola’s Dove) Poems by Tracy Ross, published by Shanti Arts Publishing in 2023, is a collection that explores the life and career of Nikola Tesla. This 110-page work delves into Tesla’s visionary contributions and personal struggles, detailing his early life, family relationships, and the challenges he faced as an inventor. The collection is presented in English and features a blend of poetry that reflects on Tesla’s journey while intertwining the author’s own experiences.
Readers will find a thoughtful examination of Tesla’s life, from his youthful aspirations to his later years marked by isolation and the theft of his intellectual property. The poems also draw parallels between Tesla’s solitude and neurodivergence with the author’s own life experiences in various settings, including urban environments and nature-rich landscapes. This edition offers a unique perspective on the intersection of biography, poetry, and personal reflection, inviting readers to engage with the complexities of both Tesla’s legacy and the author’s narrative.
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Inspired by the life and career of Nikola Tesla, When Lightning Strikes (Nikola’s Dove) speaks of the life, career, visionary contributions, and personal struggles of the engineering giant who is responsible for the design of the modern electricity supply system. The first part of this fine collection highlights Nikola Tesla’s young life and his relationship with his family, and the second part looks at his early experiences as an inventor and the ensuing struggles getting his work and vision accepted. Part three looks at his middle-age years and his move toward isolation and loneliness. Part four presents the demise of Nikola against the background of having his immensely innovative intellectual property pirated. Throughout the story of Tesla, the poet, Tracy Ross, compares and contrasts her own experiences with solitude and neurodivergence with those of Tesla, including vignettes of her life in Detroit and Chicago as well as in the nature-rich Boundary Waters of northeastern Minnesota and the rural farming areas of southwestern Minnesota.
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