Intersecting sets
a poet looks at science
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2011 - University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Alta, Alberta
Language
English
Word Count
69,000 words, Guess
Page Count
276 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25277378M
- ISBN-139780888645951
- ISBN-100888645953
- OCLC Control Number751796422
- OCLC Control Numberintersectingsets0000majo
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2012371260
Classifications
- DDC811.54
- LCCPR9199.3.M3454 Z465 2011
Description
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.
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