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The Measured Word - On Poetry and Science (Paperback)
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The Measured Word - On Poetry and Science (Paperback)
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Essays of discovery on the curious relationship - and fascinating
debate - between science and poetry 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 evolving - 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 postmodernist poetry. Here are meditations on the similarities
and differences between the poetic and scientific imagination; on
the poetic use of fractals; 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 diversity 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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