Contemporary Poetry And Contemporary Science, edited by Robert Crawford
16th Nov 2006, 11:21 GMT
Like two chemical reagents missing the necessary catalyst, science and poetry remain largely unreacted, despite well-meaning efforts on both sides. This broad-ranging attempt demonstrates some of the reasons why, and perhaps suggests a way forward. The idea was to commission pieces, both prose and poetry, from poets and scientists, and also to arrange encounters between the two. The brief accounts of these meetings betray an excessive anxiety on each side to defer to the other.
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