Gary Glazner

Tycho poem Footnotes

A life of looking. Each person looked deeply
and drew, wrote poems, sang songs, danced, acted and observed the world.

Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) was a Danish astronomer who is best known for the astronomical observations which led Kepler to his theories of the Solar system. Also, his nose was cut off in a duel.

Astronomer and Poet: Click for Examples

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night; 
What immortal hand or eye, 
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Poet and Artist: Click for Examples

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) was a Spanish scientist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906 for his work on the nervous system.

Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) is known primarily for his Andalusian works, including the poetry collections Gypsy Ballads (1928) and Lament for a Bullfighter (1935), and the tragedies Blood Wedding (1933), Yerma (1934), and The House of Bernarda Alba (1936).

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His artwork was influenced by Cajal’s drawings of the brain.

Dame Judi Dench (1934- ) Widely considered one of Britain's greatest actors.

Her 10x great aunt was Beate Brahe, the mother of famous astronomer Tycho Brahe. Not only that, but Beate was a lady-in-waiting to the Danish royal family at Kronborg castle in Helsingør – made famous by William Shakespeare as Elsinore, the setting of Hamlet.

Actor and Head of the British Secret Service (MI6): Click for Examples

Glazner writes in his lecture at the 9th Annual Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium Chicago, May 2018:
I co-taught a class on arts and health care at the University of Arizona Medical School. I visited the Gross Anatomy Laboratory and held the brain of a person that had visible deterioration from Alzheimer’s disease. I wanted that moment to be imbued with insight, as if the brain were my muse…

Poet and Harmonicist; Click for Examples