The Measured Word: On Poetry and Science - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820322873 ISBN 13: 9780820322872

Verlag: UNIV OF GEORGIA PR, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Though the interests of science and art frequently seem to inhabit opposite poles, The Measured Word assembles a brilliant anthology of twelve essays that illumine the historic--and newly emerging--relationships between the poetic and scientific imaginations. Assembling the writings of leading contemporary poets, essayists, and thinkers, Kurt Brown highlights ways in which poets use scientific discoveries and mathematical ideas to their artistic advantage--and offers insight on the recently apparent integration of technology and other discoveries into the postmodernist poetry.

Here are meditations on the similarities and differences between the poetic and scientific imagination; on the poetic use of fractals; on hypertext; on the changing shape of poetry in the scientific age. Commentary by Czech poet and immunologist Miroslav Holub, Paul Lake, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Alice Fulton, Forrest Gander, and Stephanie Strickland, among others, presents a diverse selection of opinions. These viewpoints are complemented by many careful, innovative readings of individual poems informed by the sciences.

The writings in this collection not only celebrate the advent of a new age of discovery but also identify the need for a revision of the western thinking that separates the mind and the heart--replacing division with the reciprocity of mutual communication.

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Kurt Brown is a poet who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the author of Return of the Prodigals and the editor of Verse & Universe, Night Out, Drive, They Said, and several other anthologies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF GEORGIA PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0820322873
• ISBN 13: 9780820322872
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Herausgeber: Brown Kurt
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