Intersecting Sets

A Poet Looks at Science

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism, Essays & Letters, Essays, Biography & Memoir, Literary
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Author: Alice Major ISBN: 9780888646095
Publisher: University of Alberta Press Publication: October 15, 2011
Imprint: University of Alberta Press Language: English
Author: Alice Major
ISBN: 9780888646095
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication: October 15, 2011
Imprint: University of Alberta Press
Language: English

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, Intersecting Sets is a wide-ranging and insightful amalgam.

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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, Intersecting Sets is a wide-ranging and insightful amalgam.

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