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Physics envy : American poetry and science in the Cold War and after / Peter Middleton.
LIBRA PS310.S33 M53 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Middleton, Peter, 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Literature and science.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 318 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- Poetry and science: the poetic universe: mapping interrelations between modern American poetry and the sciences
- What the physicist said to the poet: how physicists used the ideal of poetry to talk about uncertainty
- Midcentury: Projective verse: fields in science and poetics at midcentury
- Conceptual schemes: the midcentury poetics of Muriel Rukeyser and Charles Olson
- Stories, geometries, and angels: Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Olson, and Robert Duncan in the 1950s
- Scientific Americans: Scientific American poetry: Rae Armantrout, Jackson Mac Low, and Robert Duncan
- Defying social science: George Oppen and Amiri Baraka.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226290003
- 022629000X
- OCLC:
- 902656832
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