Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science

by Alice Major

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Poet Alice Major was given a book on relativity at the impressionable age of ten, so she never quite understood why science came to be dismissed as reductive or opposite to art. She surveys the sciences of the past half-century -- from physical to cognitive to evolutionary -- to shed light on why and how human beings create poems, challenging some of the mantras of postmodern thought in the process. Part memoir, part ars poetica, part wonder-journey,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0888645953

ISBN13:9780888645951

Release Date:October 2011

Publisher:University of Alberta Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.2" x 8.9"

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Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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