Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science

Alice Major

ISBN 10: 0888645953 / ISBN 13: 9780888645951

Editore: The University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2011

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8vo pp. 276, "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?

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• Titolo: Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science
• Editore: The University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0888645953
• ISBN 13: 9780888645951
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No dustjacket
• Tipo di libro: book
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sugli autori

Alice Major emigrated from Scotland at the age of eight, and grew up in Toronto before coming west to work as a weekly newspaper reporter. She served as the City of Edmonton s first poet laureate from 2005 2007. Among her previous books are Memory's Daughter, for which she won the Stephan G. Stephansson Award in 2011; The Occupied World; and The Office Tower Tales, for which she won the Pat Lowther Award in 2009. In 2010, she received a lifetime achievement award, presented by the City of Edmonton and the Professional Arts Coalition of Edmonton.

Alice Major emigrated from Scotland at the age of eight, and grew up in Toronto before coming west to work as a weekly newspaper reporter. She served as the City of Edmonton's first poet laureate from 2005 2007. A widely-published author, she has won many distinctions. Her most recent book, Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science, received the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for non-fiction as well as a National Magazine Award gold medal. Her website is www.alicemajor.com.