Research Catalog

Title

The measured word : on poetry and science / edited by Kurt Brown ; with an introduction by Albert Goldbarth.

Publication

Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Brown, Kurt
• Goldbarth, Albert
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xii, 209 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"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." -- Publisher.

Subject

• Poetry > History and criticism
• Literature and science
• Poetry as Topic
• Literature
• Science

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-202) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Twentieth-century cosmology and the soul's habitation / Pattiann Rogers -- Knowers and makers: describing the universe / M.L. Williams -- The two cultures at the end of the twentieth century / Kelly Cherry -- The nymph stick insect: observations on poetry, science, and creation / Forrest Gander -- Poetry and science: the science of poetry, the poetry of science / Miroslav Holub -- Poetry and science in America / Emily Grosholz -- Poetry and mathematics / Jonathan Holden -- Seven-league boots: poetry, science, and hypertext / Stephanie Strickland -- Fractal amplifications: writing in three dimensions / Alice Fulton -- A.R. Ammons and the poetics of chaos / Daniel Tobin -- The shape of poetry / Paul Lake -- Science and poetry: a view from the divide / Alison Hawthorne Deming.

ISBN

• 0820322865 (alk. paper)
• 0820322873 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00045133^

OCLC

• 44885170
• SCSB-10121649

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library