When Science and Poetry Stopped Being Friends?
For some time, I've been interested in the intersections of new media and poetics. Perhaps, I was interested in the hybrid forms poetry and new media can take: video poems, website poetry, poets blogging...I write, because the intersections of poetry and new media seem emergent and proliferating. I call your attention to some examples. Poets blogging, amazing ones like Craig Santos Perez, poet, friend, and a graduate student colleague of mine and Fred Moten, my previous undergraduate professor of African American Literature both at the Poetry Foundation's blog http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/, to video poems http://www.pw.org/content/six_video_poems, to the new avant garde Flarf poetry...it's endless, the possibilities that is. These intersections interests me, particularly aesthetic politics, and the meshing of genre/media/literary forms. However I am also very interested in the connection of science and poetry.
Im not only talking about the poetics in science or science themes in poetry. But I'm wondering if there are texts about scientists and poets. Specifically, I'm wondering what the relationship of both science and poetry as forms of culture and knowledge production. A review of The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes is entitled, "When Science and Poetry Were Friends." Excited to read this text, because I'm wondering, when did poetry and science stop being friends? And why? I am still developing this, but would love any insights!
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22955
- Margaret Rhee's blog
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A similar question came up at CHAT fest last week. At this discussion, Katherine Hayles gave some examples of new media prose that I think some could have considered poems, if only because she was holding them up as examples of narrative without causality. It happened kind of fast, as an aside, so I didn't quite catch it, but it seemed like someone at the discussion was bristling at the idea of the scientific experimental method applied to the realm of narrative creation, which was being suggested by the other panelist, the Liquid Narrative group director, Michael Young.
Mike
Many Thanks Mike!
Hi Mike,
Thanks for this great lead, fascinating discussion! I can't wait to puruse more!
Apologies for my delay, as I had been busy with the Queer and Feminist Forum
that the blog was on a bit of a standstill. But I appreciate your comment
very much! I also have a list of some sources of poetry books
that delve in the sciences etc that I will soon post, have been corresponding
with a friend on these issues! Would love to hear more about your work
and engage more! all best, Margaret