I Remember Galileo by Gerald Stern   I think of any turning—toward, away from, or into—as the essential creative impulse, and I find that I’m particularly drawn to poems with turns that move a poem’s evidence out of the head and into the body.  For me, Gerald Stern’s “I Remember Galileo” provides a great example of that kind of transformative turning. Stern’s poem begins with several layers of thinking as the speaker remembers something that a historical figure once said about the nature of the mind, and so we too begin at a significant distance from bodily experience.  The poem follows Galileo’s metaphor for the mind being “a piece of paper blown around by the wind” for a few lines before taking the first…