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How much of a body is a spirit, and vice versa? Does the biology of our minds make for our behavior, become our destinies? Can we make choices not determined by the chemistries that comprise our brains? What does this mean for free will and fate, and for faith itself? Is the spirit quantifiable? Each era of scientific revolution - a reconceiving of our world as well as the terms in which science defines it - has had its own profound poetries, from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales to William Carlos Williams' The Desert Music and Other Poems . Now Sara Michas-Martin's Gray Matter evokes our most immediate scientific revolution, the discovery of the interdependence of biology and environment - even if we don't yet understand to what extent each is altered by the other, and just what the effects may be. It is no accident that its title echoes that of George Oppen's post-nuclear masterpiece, The Materials . As Oppen presaged, material is altered by matter's will. Gray Matter is indeed the manuscript's matter : gray in its infinite gradations; the material of the marks on the page written language makes; the hard-wired biology of our brains as well as the matter of our thinking an

Author

Michas-martin, Sara (author.)

Publisher

New York: Fordham University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823257799

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities