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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Major, Alice, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Poetry.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, Alberta : The University of Alberta Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

The Magpies Eye

1. That Frost Feeling

2. Metaphor at Play

3. The Holographic World

4. Points on the Line

5. Symmetry

6. Poetry and Scale

7. The Ultraviolet Catastrophe

8. Gather Ye Rosebuds

9. Motion

10. Politics as Phase Space

11. Brain Surgery

A Poem is How We Felt When. ..

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-88864-788-3

OCLC:

753229643