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Book SynopsisThese essays and poems show that poetry and science are both forms of discovery. Though they can disagree, what is most provocative and exciting is just how often poets and scientists agree. Contributors include bestselling psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jamison, astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, and poets Paul Muldoon and Simon Armitage.
Trade ReviewEngaging essays studded with wit and humor an entertaining and illuminating volume. * Diane Ackerman, Science *
Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Rampage, or Science in Poetry ; As Above ; Poetry and Virtual Realities ; Grimoire ; Spirit Machines: The Human and the Computational ; Biology ; Testament and Confessions of an Informationist ; The Working Self ; A Science of Belonging: Poetry as Ecology ; Steinar undir Steinahlithum ; Modelling the Universe: Poetry, Science, and the Art of Metaphor ; Circadian ; Astronomy and Poetry ; A Fistful of Foraminifera ; The Act of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Poetry of Jorie Graham and Leslie Scalapino ; Once I Looked into Your Eyes ; The Art of Wit and the Cambridge Science Park ; The Organ Bath ; Contemporary Psychology and Contemporary Poetry: Perspectives on Mood Disorders ; Afterword
