Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science

Table of contents

• Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science i
• Title Page iii
• Acknowledgements vii
• Contents xi
• Notes on Contributors xiii
• Introduction 1
• Rampage, or Science in Poetry 11
• As above 25
• Poetry and Virtual Realities 27
• Grimoire 48
• Spirit Machines: The Human and the Computational 52
• Biology 69
• Testament and Confessions of an Informationist 72
• The Working Self 88
• A Science of Belonging: Poetry as Ecology 91
• Steinar Undir Steinahlithum 107
• Modelling the Universe: Poetry, Science, and the Art of Metaphor 110
• Circadian 123
• Astronomy and Poetry 125
• A Fistful of Foraminifera 141
• The Act of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Poetry of Jorie Graham and Leslie Scalapino 146
• Once I Looked into Your Eyes 167
• The Art of Wit and the Cambridge Science Park 170
• The Organ Bath 188
• Contemporary Psychology and Contemporary Poetry: Perspectives on Mood Disorders 191
• Afterword 204
• Notes 211
• Index 227

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