“Fletcher attempts to convert science into the erotic, & he is gorgeously successful. He turns the universe, its stars & black holes into tangible & personal entities that reside somewhere all around us & inside us. This collection is a tribute to living & dying, to desiring & imagining. It uses scholarship to question existence, even the kind of musing that rouses … ‘what could be left to hold from Earth / but love.’ Existing Science is an important, necessary and wonderfully crafted debut.”

—Yesenia Montilla, author of The Pink Box & Muse Found in a Colonized Body

“Fletcher has created a universe where dark matter smells like lilacs and where it also bleeds, where we can learn from the stars and kiss them goodnight. Laws and theories and emotions connect, collide and reconnect throughout these poems as the speaker contemplates his own loves and losses. Science is personified and invites us to travel through the galaxies of our own life journeys where there is hope amid cosmic and human joys and tragedies. Science takes us by the hand and shows us how to trust the unknown and explore the uncomfortable.  Fletcher’s poems gift me with a new understanding of and appreciation for the necessary relationships between astronomy, biology, and humanity. I believe this poet when he writes, ‘we are not floating alone in some void … / our skin can become the moon for someone … / we can be part of every world.’”

—Lynne McEniry, author of some other wet landscape