Primate scientist Jane Goodall, who died this month at 91, argued that old age should nudge us to stay busy, not slow down. As she saw it, the less time one has, the more one should focus on what’s left to do.

I suspect that Goodall would have gotten along well with another 91-year-old, poet and former Tulane professor Catharine Savage Brosman.

Brosman, who taught French for many years at Tulane and now divides her time between Houston and New Orleans, has just published “Metates and Other Poems” through University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press. It follows two other recent collections, “Arm in Arm” and “Aerosols and Other Poems.” “Partial Memoirs,” a prose reflection on her long and eventful life, appeared last year, and another book, “New and Selected Poems,” is slated for next year.

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