This book examines types of resistance in contemporary poetry to
the authority of scientific knowledge, tracing the source of these
resistances to both their literary precedents and the scientific
zeitgeists that helped to produce them. Walpert argues that
contemporary poetry offers a palimpsest of resistance, using as
case studies the poets Alison Hawthorne Deming, Pattiann Rogers,
Albert Goldbarth, and Joan Retallack to trace the recapitulation of
romantic arguments (inherited from Keats, Shelly, and Coleridge,
which in turn were produced in part in response to Newtonian
physics), modernist arguments (inherited from Eliot and Pound,
arguments influenced in part by relativity and quantum theory), and
postmodernist arguments (arguments informed by post-structuralist
theory, e.g. Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, with affinities to
arguments for the limitations of science in the philosophy,
sociology, and rhetoric of science). Some of these poems reveal the
discursive ideologies of scientific language-reveal, in other
words, the performativity of scientific language. In doing so,
these poems themselves can also be read as performative acts and,
therefore, as forms of intervention rather than representation.
Reading Retallack alongside science studies scholar Karen Barad,
the book concludes by proposing that viewing knowledge as a form of
intervention, rather than representation, offers a bridge between
contemporary poetry and science.
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