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Title Contemporary poetry and contemporary science / edited by Robert Crawford.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 234 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index.
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Contents Contents; Notes on Contributors; INTRODUCTION; RAMPAGE, OR SCIENCE IN POETRY; 'AS ABOVE'; POETRY AND VIRTUAL REALITIES; 'GRIMOIRE'; SPIRIT MACHINES: THE HUMAN AND THE COMPUTATIONAL; 'BIOLOGY'; TESTAMENT AND CONFESSIONS OF AN INFORMATIONIST; 'THE WORKING SELF'; A SCIENCE OF BELONGING: POETRY AS ECOLOGY; 'STEINAR UNDIR STEINAHLITHUM'; MODELLING THE UNIVERSE: POETRY, SCIENCE, AND THE ART OF METAPHOR; 'CIRCADIAN'; ASTRONOMY AND POETRY; 'A FISTFUL OF FORAMINIFERA'; THE ACT OF THE MIND: THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS IN THE POETRY OF JORIE GRAHAM AND LESLIE SCALAPINO; 'ONCE I LOOKED INTO YOUR EYES'
THE ART OF WIT AND THE CAMBRIDGE SCIENCE PARK'THE ORGAN BATH'; CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY POETRY: PERSPECTIVES ON MOOD DISORDERS; AFTERWORD; Notes; Index.
Summary These essays and poems show that poetry and science are both forms of discovery. Though they can disagree, what is most provocative and exciting is just how often poets and scientists agree. Contributors include bestselling psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jamison, astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, and poets Paul Muldoon and Simon Armitage. - ;A unique collaboration between leading poets and scientists, Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science demonstrates through its form, and through practice as well as reflection, that poetry and science can meet with productive results. Crossing between di.
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Subject Science in literature.
Science in literature.
English poetry -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism.
English poetry -- Scottish authors.
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English poetry.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American poetry.
Science -- Poetry.
Science.
Poetry as Topic.
Science.
Literature, Modern.
Medicine in Literature.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Poetry.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Poetry.
Added Author Crawford, Robert, 1959-
Other Form: Print version: Contemporary poetry and contemporary science. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 0199258120 9780199258123 (DLC) 2006009860 (OCoLC)66392626
ISBN 9781429470643 (electronic book)
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0199258120 (Cloth)
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