Sublime Physick: Essays

**2016 *Foreword Reviews* Indies Award, Silver 2016 Association for Mormon Letters Award 2017 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold** This introspective and exuberant collection of Patrick Madden's essays is wide-ranging and wild, following bifurcating paths of thought to surprising connections. In *Sublime Physick*, Madden seeks what is common and ennobling among seemingly disparate, even divisive, subjects, ruminating on midlife, time, family, forgiveness, loss, originality, a Canadian rock band, and much more, discerning the ways in which the natural world (*fisica*) transcends and joins the realm of ideas (*sublime*) through the application of a meditative mind. In twelve essays that straddle the classical and the contemporary, Madden transmutes the ruder world into a finer one, articulating with subtle humor and playfulness how science and experience abut and intersect with spirituality and everyday life.