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Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science
Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science
Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science
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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.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 15, 2011
ISBN9780888647887
Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science
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Alice Major

Alice Major has published eleven collections of poetry, two novels for young adults and an award-winning collection of essays about poetry and science. A long time advocate for the arts, Alice is the founder of the Edmonton Poetry Festival and was that city's first poet laureate. Knife on Snow is her twelfth poetry collection.

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