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<p>A unique collaboration between leading poets and scientists, <b>Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science</b> demonstrates through its form, and through practice as well as reflection, that poetry and science can meet with productive results. Crossing between disciplines, and between prose and verse, the book shows how modes of scientific knowledge and of poetic making continue to be intertwined. Often drawing on Scottish intellectual traditions, rather than on the notorious "two cultures" argument, <b>Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science</b> argues through examples for a more open and mutually sympathetic engagement of poetry and science in contemporary culture.</p> <p>Provocative, nimble, and surprising, this book is in several senses a crossover volume. In its gathering of essays as well as poems, it is the first book of its kind. Readers can see how a poet and a solar physicist may share working assumptions; how poetic insight may inform psychiatric practice; how a poet's encounter with an MRI scanner leads to a fresh neurological experiment. As well as new essays by internationally distinguished poets, scientists, and literary critics—including Simon Armitage, Gi

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Author

Crawford, Robert

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429470643

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Science