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• Title:Intersecting sets : a poet looks at science / by Alice Major.
  
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• Author/Creator:Major, Alice, 1949-
  
• Published/Created:Edmonton, Alta. : University of Alberta Press, ©2011.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PS8576.A442 Z46 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Canadian Subjects: Poets, Canadian (English)--20th century.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Major, Alice, 1949-
  Science--Poetry.
  
• Genre/Form:Poetry.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:xvi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Summary: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.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-258) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780888645951 (pbk.)
  0888645953 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:One. That Frost Feeling
  Two. Metaphor at Play
  Three. The Holographic World
  Four. Points on the Line
  Five. Symmetry
  Six. Poetry and Scale
  Seven. The Ultraviolet Catastrophe
  Eight. Gather Ye Rosebuds
  Nine. Motion
  Ten. Politics as Phase Space
  Eleven. Brain Surgery.