Author: Louis Nelson File Type: pdf span 11pt Helvetica Neue vertical-align baseline id=docs-internal-guid-d7fa8a9a-f772-3dd2-64de-1c922dad6738Louis Nelson, The Architectures of Black Identity Buildings, Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean and the American South, spanspan 11pt Helvetica Neue font-style italic vertical-align baselineWinterthur Portfoliospanspan 11pt Helvetica Neue vertical-align baseline 45, no. 23 (2011) 177-93.span

Author: Robert Creeley File Type: pdf Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, Creeley imbued his correspondence with the literary artistry he brought to his poetry. Through his engagements with mentors such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound, peers such as Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, and mentees such as Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Ed Dorn, Susan Howe, and Tom Raworth, Creeley helped forge a new poetry that re-imagined writing for his and subsequent generations. This first-ever volume of his letters, written between 1945 and 2005, document the life, work, and times of one of our greatest writers, and represent a critical archive of the development of contemporary American poetry, as well as the changing nature of letter-writing and communication in the digital era. Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, Creeley imbued his correspondence with the literary artistry he brought to his poetry. Through his engagements with mentors such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound, peers such as Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, and mentees such as Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Ed Dorn, Susan Howe, and Tom Raworth, Creeley helped forge a new poetry that re-imagined writing for his and subsequent generations. This first-ever volume of his letters, written between 1945 and 2005, document the life, work, and times of one of our greatest writers, and represent a critical archive of the development of contemporary American poetry, as well as the changing nature of letter-writing and communication in the digital era.**

Author: John Keene File Type: epub Geniusbrilliant, polished and of considerabledepth.Ishmael Reed An experimental first novel of poem-like compression,Annotationshas a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean ToomersCane, the book is in part a meditation on African-American autobiography. Keene explores questions of identity from many anglesfrom race to social class to sexuality (gay and straight). Employing all manner of textual play and rhythmic and rhetorical maneuvers, he (re)creates his life story as a jazz fugue-in-words.

Author: Richard Dawkins File Type: pdf Amazon.com ReviewWhy do poets and artists so often disparage science in their work? For that matter, why does so much scientific literature compare poorly with, say, the phone book? After struggling with questions like these for years, biologist Richard Dawkins has taken a wide-ranging view of the subjects of meaning and beauty in Unweaving the Rainbow, a deeply humanistic examination of science, mysticism, and human nature. Notably strong-willed in a profession of bet-hedgers and wait-and-seers, Dawkins carries the reader along on a romp through the natural and cultural worlds, determined that science, at its best, should leave room for poetry.Inspired by the frequently asked question, Why do you bother getting up in the morning? following publication of his book The Selfish Gene, Dawkins set out determined to show that understanding natures mechanics need not sap ones zest for life. Alternately enlightening and maddening, Unweaving the Rainbow will appeal to all thoughtful readers, whether wild-eyed technophiles or grumpy, cabin-dwelling Luddites. Excoriations of newspaper astrology columns follow quotes from Blake and Shakespeare, which are sandwiched between sparkling, easy-to-follow discussions of probability, behavior, and evolution. In Dawkinss world (and, he hopes, in ours), science is poetry he ends his journey by referring to his titles author and subject, maintaining that A Keats and a Newton, listening to each other, might hear the galaxies sing. --Rob LightnerFrom Publishers WeeklyKeats complained that Newtons experiments with prisms had destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow. Not so, says Oxford biologist Dawkins (The Selfish Gene) who, in an eloquent if prickly defense of the scientific enterprise, calls on the two cultures of science and poetry to learn from each other. Yet Dawkins cautions against bad poetic science, i.e., seductive but misleading metaphors, and cites as an example Gaia the overrated romantic fancy of the whole world as an organism, a hypothesis proposed by atmospheric scientist James Lovelock and bacteriologist Lynn Margulis. Dawkins (continuing a celebrated battle that has been raging in the New York Review of Books) also lambastes paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould for bad poetry, rejecting Goulds theory of punctuated equilibrium, which holds that new species emerge during relatively short bursts of evolutionary advance. In these conversational, discursive essays, Dawkins is, as always, an elegant, witty popularizer, whether he is offering a crash course in DNA fingerprinting, explaining the origins of mad cow disease in weird proteins that spread like self-replicating viruses or discussing male birdsong as an auditory aphrodisiac for female birds. However, in venturing into realms beyond the immediate purview of science, he reveals his own biases, launching into a predictable, rather superficial assault on paranormal research, UFO reports, astrology and psychic phenomena, all of which he dismisses as products of fraud, illusion, sloppy observation or an exploitation of our natural appetite for wonder. Dawkins is most interesting when he theorizes that our brains have partly taken over from DNA the role of recording the environment, resulting in virtual worlds that alter the terrain in which our genes undergo natural selection. Agent, John Brockman. 50,000 first printing first serial to the Sciences. 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Amazon.com ReviewWhy do poets and artists so often disparage science in their work? For that matter, why does so much scientific literature compare poorly with, say, the phone book? After struggling with questions like these for years, biologist Richard Dawkins has taken a wide-ranging view of the subjects of meaning and beauty in Unweaving the Rainbow, a deeply humanistic examination of science, mysticism, and human nature. Notably strong-willed in a profession of bet-hedgers and wait-and-seers, Dawkins carries the reader along on a romp through the natural and cultural worlds, determined that science, at its best, should leave room for poetry.Inspired by the frequently asked question, Why do you bother getting up in the morning? following publication of his book The Selfish Gene, Dawkins set out determined to show that understanding natures mechanics need not sap ones zest for life. Alternately enlightening and maddening, Unweaving the Rainbow will appeal to all thoughtful readers, whether wild-eyed technophiles or grumpy, cabin-dwelling Luddites. Excoriations of newspaper astrology columns follow quotes from Blake and Shakespeare, which are sandwiched between sparkling, easy-to-follow discussions of probability, behavior, and evolution. In Dawkinss world (and, he hopes, in ours), science is poetry he ends his journey by referring to his titles author and subject, maintaining that A Keats and a Newton, listening to each other, might hear the galaxies sing. --Rob LightnerFrom WikipediaUnweaving the Rainbow (subtitled Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder) is a 1998 book by Richard Dawkins, discussing the relationship between science and the arts from the perspective of a scientist. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on AmazonIn the article Summary of the arguments | Petwhac