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Physics envy : American poetry and science in the Cold War and after / Peter Middleton

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Middleton, Peter, 1950-
Published
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Physical Description
ix, 318 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents
Poetry and science: the poetic universe: mapping interrelations between modern American poetry and the sciences -- What the physicist said to the poet: how physicists used the ideal of poetry to talk about uncertainty -- Midcentury: Projective verse: fields in science and poetics at midcentury -- Conceptual schemes: the midcentury poetics of Muriel Rukeyser and Charles Olson -- Stories, geometries, and angels: Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Olson, and Robert Duncan in the 1950s -- Scientific Americans: Scientific American poetry: Rae Armantrout, Jackson Mac Low, and Robert Duncan -- Defying social science: George Oppen and Amiri Baraka.
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ISBN
9780226290003 cloth alkaline paper
022629000X cloth alkaline paper
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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