Intersecting sets : a poet looks at science / by Alice Major.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Major, Alice, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Poetry.

Science.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xvi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, Alta. : University of Alberta Press, [2011]

Summary:

Poet Alice Major was given a book on relativity at the impressionable age of ten, so she never quite understood why science came to be dismissed as reductive or opposite to art. She surveys the sciences of the past half-century -- from physical to cognitive to evolutionary -- to shed light on why and how human beings create poems, challenging some of the mantras of postmodern thought in the process. Part memoir, part ars poetica, part wonder-journey, Intersecting Sets is a wide-ranging and insightful amalgam.

Contents:

1 That Frost Feeling 1

2 Metaphorat Play 17

3 The Holographic World 47

4 Points on the Line 67

5 Symmetry 93

6 Poetry and Scale 127

7 The Ultraviolet Catastrophe 147

8 Gather Ye Rosebuds 167

9 Motion 187

10 Politics as Phase Space 209

11 Brain Surgery 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-258) and index.

ISBN:

9780888645951

0888645953

OCLC:

751796422