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Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science
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Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science Paperback - 2011

by Alice Major

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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.

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  • Title Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science
  • Author Alice Major
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Alberta Press, Georgetown, ON, Canada
  • Publication date 2011
  • ISBN 9780888645951 / 0888645953
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.25 x 0.75 in (22.86 x 13.34 x 1.91 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Science
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

About the author

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.

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University of Alberta Press, 2011. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Stated First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine copy in blue printed wraps with minimal to no shelfwear. Internally clean and free of markings with an uncreased spine. // From the publisher: '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.'.
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