Songs from Unsung Worlds: Science in Poetry

By Bonnie Bilyeu Gordon

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1489966609
• ISBN13: 9781489966605
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Science in Poetry

This anthology covers several areas of science, but breaks them into catagories: Subject is Science; Observations of the Natural World; Science as Metaphor; and Satire and Criticism of Science. It is prefaced by an interesting dialogue and includes biolgraphical notes of all the authors. Sciences include: astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, physics. Poets include Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Annie Dillard and many contemporary American poets. Recommended.