Poetry and Cosmogony
Author: Andrews
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-11-20
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9004649468
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Andrews
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-11-20
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9004649468
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lucy Ives
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2021-03-09
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1593766041
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An energetic, witty collection of stories where the supernatural meets the anomalies of everyday life--deception, infidelity, lost cats, cute memes, amateur pornography, and more. There are analogies between being female and being left-handed, I think, or being an animal. A woman answers a Craigslist ad (to write erotic diaries for money). A woman walks onto a tennis court (from her home at the bottom of the ocean). A woman goes to the supermarket and meets a friend's husband (who happens to be an immortal demon). A woman goes for a run (and accidentally time travels). Cosmogony takes accounts of so-called normal life and mines them for inconsistencies, deceptions, and delights. Incorporating a virtuosic range of styles and genres (Wikipedia entry, phone call, physics equation, encounters with the supernatural), these stories reveal how the narratives we tell ourselves and believe are inevitably constructed, offering a glimpse of the structures that underlie and apparently determine human existence.
Author: K. Sara Myers
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780472104598
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A stimulating investigation of some of Ovid's source-material.
Author: Claude Esteban
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9780916426125
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Osserman
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2011-04-27
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0307790584
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the bestselling literary tradition of Lewis Thomas's Lives of a Cell and James Watson's The Double Helix, Poetry of the Universe is a delightful and compelling narrative charting the evolution of mathematical ideas that have helped to illuminate the nature of the observable universe. In a richly anecdotal fashion, the book explores teh leaps of imagination and vision in mathematics that have helped pioneer our understanding of the world around us.
Author: Charles Simic
Publisher: George Braziller
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John David Ebert
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-04-16
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781545426319
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this new collection of poetry, John David Ebert takes the reader on a visionary tour through the unfolding and evolution of the earth's history. Beginning with the creation of the planet, Ebert chronicles the unfolding of each of its epochs all the way down to its Anthropogeny, or the genesis of hominids and the first cities in the ancient Near East. Fashioned in apocalyptic - epic style, Ebert's work is an exhilarating ride through the history of planet Earth.
Author: James Applewhite
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2014-04-14
Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 0807155012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Throughout his long career, James Applewhite has skillfully navigated the world of science through poetry. His new book makes no exception, fearlessly exploring time and consciousness in relation to the universe as described by Big Bang cosmology -- and as experienced by human beings in the everyday world. Applying experiences from his present-day life as well as a multitude of memories from his childhood to scientific theories of the nature of the universe, the poet engages in a patient but relentless -- and finally deeply rewarding -- quest for a sense of meaning in a cosmos whose dimensions of space and time defy the human capacity to imagine. In his quest, Applewhite suggests the continuing possibility of a crucial connection to the universe through our seemingly tiny, evanescent experiences here on planet Earth. The poems in Cosmos help us value the human-related dimensions of being all the more as they are discerned against the cosmic vastness. "We've known for a long time gravitydoesn't exist," Dr. Verlinde said.This adhesion of all mass to itself isfollowing the vector of energy downwardwith the thermodynamic arrow, which pierces uswith our moments. The illusion encloses,scenes in mind return nonsensically -- my foot slips on the slick bank and fora moment suspended in fallingI know the time slow down, seeingthe red-star sweet gum leafsliding with the current's surfacethat holds the late September skyand heat in a thin film. Then I pierce it, splashing through -- the rowboat my brother called the Peanut Shellrocking out from the bank whileI arise back through the brown creekskin and into air of the dream worldI know so well, where Henry is laughing. -- from "Reading the Science News"
Author: Hanna Boeke
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007-10-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9047422821
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book investigates the cosmological context of Pindar’s victory odes, and how it influences his presentation of praise. The study first focuses on gnomai as a reflection of cosmology, using these sayings to establish the views the poems reveal on matters such as the divine, the human condition and man in society. This overview is complemented by detailed literary analyses demonstrating how cosmology functions in individual odes. They show that Pindar shapes the poet persona to emphasize different aspects of the traditional world view or represent varying viewpoints so that he can praise each victor according to his particular circumstances. By focusing on cosmology the book highlights a neglected dimension of Pindar’s odes and challenges some traditional views on this poet.