Intersecting sets
Subtitle: a poet looks at science
By: by Alice Major
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Edmonton, Alta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780888645951
Subjects: Science; Poetry
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-258) and index.

Issued also in electronic format.