Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science

A collaboration between leading poets and scientists, this title demonstrates through its form, and through practice, as well as reflection, that poetry and science can meet with productive results. It also shows how modes of scientific knowledge and of poetic making continue to be intertwined.

Each poem is introduced by the scientist whose work prompted the poem. Though Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science exposes and investigates strains between the way poets and scientists see and reinvent the world, the book is most arresting and enjoyable when it shows just how often poets and scientists agree.

Introduction
Rampage, or Science in Poetry
As Above
Poetry and Virtual Realities
Grimoire
Spirit Machines: The Human and the Computational
Biology
Testament and Confessions of an Informationist
The Working Self
A Science of Belonging: Poetry as Ecology
Steinar undir Steinahlithum
Modelling the Universe: Poetry, Science, and the Art of Metaphor
Circadian
Astronomy and Poetry
A Fistful of Foraminifera
The Act of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Poetry of Jorie Graham and Leslie Scalapino
Once I Looked into Your Eyes
The Art of Wit and the Cambridge Science Park
The Organ Bath
Contemporary Psychology and Contemporary Poetry: Perspectives on Mood Disorders
Afterword