Contemporary poetry and contemporary science / edited by Robert Crawford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crawford, Robert, 1959- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science in literature.

English poetry--Scottish authors--History and criticism.

English poetry.

English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Science--Poetry.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collaboration between leading poets and scientists, this title shows through its form, and through practice, as well as reflection, that poetry and science can meet with productive results. It also shows how modes of scientific knowledge and of poetic making continue to be intertwined.

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

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-226) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-03995-X

1-280-75909-7

0-19-153158-8

1-4294-7064-X

OCLC:

609831226