Verse & Universe: Poems About Science and Mathematics - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1571314075 ISBN 13: 9781571314079

Publisher: Milkweed Editions, 1998

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Science and art come together in Verse & Universe, a comprehensive selection of poetic voices revealing the beauty, the precision, the triumphs, and the destructive power inherent in science and technology.

In sections such as "Space," "Matter," "Heavenly Bodies," and "Theory and Speculation," 80 contemporary poets contemplate the revolutions in physics, astronomy, mathematics, chemistry, geology, botany, biology, and medicine. Their words celebrate our curiosity and inventiveness, as well as our delight in the act of discovery, as they turn the revelations of science into poetry and capture the nature and spirit of modern scientific inquiry. A few of the outstanding poets in the collection include Loren Eiseley, Jorie Graham, Emily Hiestand, Howard Nemerov, Pattiann Rogers, and Charles Simic.

Review:

Measures by Nadya Aisenberg
Sum by Nadya Aisenberg
Cascadilla Falls by Archie Randolph Ammons
Expressions Of Sea Level by Archie Randolph Ammons
Identity by Archie Randolph Ammons
Mechanism by Archie Randolph Ammons
Prodigal by Archie Randolph Ammons
Saliences by Archie Randolph Ammons
On Learning On The Clearest Night Only 6000 Stars Are Visible To The by Antler [pseud.]
The Poet Studies Physics by Carol Jane Bangs
Astrophysicists by Bruce Berger
Murray by Bruce Berger
Stellar Gothic by Bruce Berger
All Together, Nothing Lost by Dinah Berland
Boolean Algebra : X2 = X by William M. Bronk
On Drivers Geometries by William M. Bronk
Isotropic by Christopher Buckley
Speculation In Dark Air by Christopher Buckley
Star Journal by Christopher Buckley
Stars by Ralph Burns
Einstein Thinks About The Daughter He Put Up For Adoption And Then by Jennifer Clement
William Herschel's Sister, Caroline, Discovers Eight Comets by Jennifer Clement
The Heavy Light Of Shifting Stars by Michael Collier
Earthling by Billy Collins
Essay On Intelligence: Five by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Essay On Intelligence: Four by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Essay On Intelligence: One by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Essay On Intelligence: Seven by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Essay On Intelligence: Six by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Essay On Intelligence: Three by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Essay On Intelligence: Two by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Genetic Sequence by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Mt. Lemmon, Steward Observatory, 1990 by Alison Hawthorne Deming
The Woman Painting Crates by Alison Hawthorne Deming
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by Carl Dennis
Evolution by Carl Dennis
Fractals by Diana Der-hovanessian
Black Holes & Hologramarye: Cosmological Holophrastics by Peter Dillingham
Black Holes & Hologramarye: Epitaph For A Star by Peter Dillingham
Black Holes & Hologramarye: Holo-caustic by Peter Dillingham
Black Holes & Hologramarye: Narcisse And The Black Hole by Peter Dillingham
The Fish In The Stone by Rita Dove
Geometry by Rita Dove
Facing My Amygdala by Denise Duhamel
The Future Of Vaginas And Penises by Denise Duhamel
Notes Of An Alchemist by Loren Eiseley
Sea Lilies by D. A. Feinfeld
Skeleton Key by D. A. Feinfeld
Astronomer by Robert Francis
Comet by Robert Francis
A Fractal Pattern by Robert Frazier
Time And The Hour by Forrest Gander
Farder To Reache by Albert Goldbarth
Reality Organization by Albert Goldbarth
Reality Organization: 2 by Albert Goldbarth
Reality Organization: 3 by Albert Goldbarth
Reality Organization: 4 by Albert Goldbarth
The Sciences Sing A Lullabye by Albert Goldbarth
Tarpan And Aurochs by Albert Goldbarth
Vestigial: Appendix, Coccyx, Pineal Eye by Albert Goldbarth
Vestigial: Big Bang by Albert Goldbarth
Vestigial: The Adventures Of John Dee by Albert Goldbarth
From Sir Francis Bacon's Novum Organum by Jorie Graham
From Sir Francis Bacon's Novum Organum by Jorie Graham
C = The Physics Of Farewell by Alvin David Greenberg
The Dissolution Of The Rainbow by Emily Grosholz
Poems Overheard At A Conference On Relativity Theory: I by Emily Grosholz
Poems Overheard At A Conference On Relativity Theory: Iii by Emily Grosholz
Poems Overheard At A Conference On Relativity Theory: Iv by Emily Grosholz
Poems Overheard At A Conference On Relativity Theory: V by Emily Grosholz
Poems Overheard At A Conference On Relativity Theory: Vi by Emily Grosholz
Poems Overheard At A Conference On Relativity Theory: Vii by Emily Grosholz
Poems Overheard At Conference On Relativity Theory: Ii by Emily Grosholz
Reflections On The Transfinite by Emily Grosholz
Rivers by Emily Grosholz
Earth's Answer by Emily Hiestand
On First Reading Particle Physics by Emily Hiestand
Os by Emily Hiestand
Dark Matter by Brenda Lynn Hillman
Time Problem by Brenda Lynn Hillman
Astrology by Tony Hoagland
Fritz Haber by Roald Hoffmann
Giving In by Roald Hoffmann
Grand Unification by Roald Hoffmann
Jerry-built Forever: 1 by Roald Hoffmann
Jerry-built Forever: 2 by Roald Hoffmann
Jerry-built Forever: 3 by Roald Hoffmann
Jerry-built Forever: 4 by Roald Hoffmann
Jerry-built Forever: 5 by Roald Hoffmann
What We Have Learned About The Pineal by Roald Hoffmann
Who Uses Whom by Roald Hoffmann
After Closing Luigi Cremona's Projective Geometry by Jonathan Holden
The Fall Of Pythagoras by Jonathan Holden
Integrals by Jonathan Holden
Ramanujan by Jonathan Holden
Zeno's Paradox by Jonathan Holden
The Archaeologist's Dream by Martha Hollander
The Pattern by Janet Holmes
Poet To Physicist In His Laboratory by David Ignatow
Neutrinos by Colette Inez
Seven Stages Of Skeletal Decay by Colette Inez
The 9+2 Roseate Anatomy Of Microtubules by Kerry Johanssen
At The Cavendish Laboratory, 1941 by Michael L. Johnson
Fibonacci Time Lines by Michael L. Johnson
Ludwig Boltzmann by Michael L. Johnson
M. C. Escher's Circle Limit Iii by Michael L. Johnson
Roentgen by Michael L. Johnson
Schrodinger's Cat by Michael L. Johnson
Stephen Hawking Oraculates by Michael L. Johnson
Beam 4 by Ronald Johnson
Beam 7 by Ronald Johnson
The Blood by Alice Jones
The Cell by Alice Jones
The Inner Ear by Alice Jones
The Larynx by Alice Jones
The Lungs by Alice Jones
Pure Mathematics by Rodney Jones
Architecture by Nancy Kassell
The Consolations Of Sociobiology by Bill Knott
Neuroanatomy by Susan Kolodny
Still The Same by Rosann Kozlowski
The Limbic System by Thomas Lux
Time by Thomas Lux
Resons For Numbers by Lisel Mueller
Cybernetics by Howard Nemerov
Figures Of Thought by Howard Nemerov
Moment by Howard Nemerov
A Moon Eclipsed by Howard Nemerov
Universe: Alter-egos (a Meditation On Strange Attractors) : Strange At by Renee Olander
Universe: Alter-egos (a Meditation On Strange Attractors): Dreams by Renee Olander
Universe: Alter-egos (a Meditation On Strange Attractors): You by Renee Olander
Universe: Alter-egos 9 A Meditation On Strange Attractors): Shapes And by Renee Olander
Somebody Ought To Write A Poem For Ptolemy by Jacqueline Osherow
The North Star by Sue Ann Owen
Zero by Sue Ann Owen
Copernicus by Benjamin Paloff
Sea Of Negative Charges by Benjamin Paloff
Heavenly Bodies: 1 by Susan Prospere
Heavenly Bodies: 2 by Susan Prospere
Heavenly Bodies: 3 by Susan Prospere
The Astronomer Works Nights: A Parable Of Science by Bin Ramke
The Monkish Mind Of The Speculative Physicist by Bin Ramke
Earth And Diamonds by Carter Revard
This Is Your Geode Talking by Carter Revard
Learning The Planets by Len Roberts
Learning The Stars by Len Roberts
Achieving Perspective by Pattiann Rogers
The Brain Creates Itself by Pattiann Rogers
The Definition Of Time by Pattiann Rogers
Fossil Texts On Canyon Walls: Astrophysical Dynamics by Pattiann Rogers
Fossil Texts On Canyon Walls: This State Of Stone by Pattiann Rogers
Fractal: Repetition Of Form Over A Variety Of Scales by Pattiann Rogers
Good Heavens : I by Pattiann Rogers
Good Heavens: Iii by Pattiann Rogers
Good Heavens: Ii by Pattiann Rogers
Good Heavens: Iv by Pattiann Rogers
Life In An Expanding Universe by Pattiann Rogers
The Origin Of Order by Pattiann Rogers
The Pieces Of Heaven by Pattiann Rogers
The Possible Advantage Of The Expendable Multitudes by Pattiann Rogers
The Rites Of Passage by Pattiann Rogers
The Voice Of Precambrian Sea by Pattiann Rogers
About Time by Alane Rollings
Tomorrow Is A Difficult Idea by Alane Rollings
Amor Fati by Kenneth Rosen
The Mathematician's Disclaimer by Ira Sadoff
Ploughing The Dark by Reg Saner
Vespers by Reg Saner
Something Silver-white by Timothy Seibles
The New Cosmology by Frederick Seidel
An Astronomer's Journal by Jane Shore
Dear Isaac Newton by Charles Simic
Drawing The Triangle by Charles Simic
Ghost Stories Written by Charles Simic
Madonnas Touched Up With A Goatee by Charles Simic
Many Zeros by Charles Simic
Thoughts Near The Close Of Millennium by John Sokol
Looking Up At Night by William Edgar Stafford
On Earth by William Edgar Stafford
What If We Were Alone? by William Edgar Stafford
Computer Map Of The Early Universe by Maura Stanton
Presto! How The Universe Is Made by Stephanie Strickland
New Math by Cole Swensen
Dinosaur National by Karen Swenson
The Leaves Of A Dream Are The Leaves Of An Onion by Arthur Sze
The Leaves Of A Dream Are The Leaves Of An Onion: 1 by Arthur Sze
The Leaves Of A Dream Are The Leaves Of An Onion: 2 by Arthur Sze
The Leaves Of A Dream Are The Leaves Of An Onion: 3 by Arthur Sze
The Leaves Of A Dream Are The Leaves Of An Onion: 5 by Arthur Sze
The Leaves Of A Dream Are The Leaves Of An Onion: 6 by Arthur Sze
The Redshifting Web: 1 by Arthur Sze
The Redshifting Web: 2 by Arthur Sze
The Redshifting Web: 3 by Arthur Sze
The Redshifting Web: 4 by Arthur Sze
The Redshifting Web: 5 by Arthur Sze
The Redshifting Web: 6 by Arthur Sze
The Redshifting Web: 7 by Arthur Sze
The Redshifting Web: 9 by Arthur Sze
The Reshifting Web: 8 by Arthur Sze
Cosmic Gall by John Updike
The God Of Galaxies by Mark Van Doren
He 2-104: A True Planetary Nebula In The Making by Gloria Vando
Chaos Theory: Love's Discrete Nonlinearity by Ronald W. Wallace
Chaos Theory: Sensitive Dependence On Initial Conditions by Ronald W. Wallace
Chaos Theory: Strange Attractors by Ronald W. Wallace
Descent by Charles Harper Webb
Heat Death by Charles Harper Webb
Liver by Charles Harper Webb
Persistence Of Sound by Charles Harper Webb
The Uncertainty Principle by M. L. Williams
Robert Oppenheimer, 1945 by John Witte
Notes Toward A Biography Of Christiaan Radius, Near-sighted Astronomer by Paul Zimmer
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1571314075
• ISBN 13: 9781571314079
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 335
• Editor: Brown Kurt