Physics envy : American poetry and science in the Cold War and after /
Middleton, Peter,1950-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Poetry and science. The poetic universe: mapping interrelations between modern American poetry and the sciences -- What the physicist said to the poet: how physicists used the ideal of poetry to talk about uncertainty -- Part II. Midcentury. Projective verse: fields in science and poetics at midcentury -- Conceptual schemes: the midcentury poetics of Muriel Rukeyser and Charles Olson -- Stories, geometries, and angels: Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Olson, and Robert Duncan in the 1950s -- Part III. Scientific Americans. Scientific American poetry: Rae Armantrout, Jackson Mac Low, and Robert Duncan -- Defying social science: George Oppen and Amiri Baraka.
American poetry
Literature and science.