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The Feynman Challenge: Poems on Science
Richard Feynman, the 20th Century’s most dashing physicist, set poets a Science is not just mystery but truth, and they should tackle it. From the mating of sea slugs to the discovery of gravity waves, The Feynman Challenge sees James Thornton focus poetry on the realms of science. Poems are sourced with the scientific articles and papers whose narratives and wonders they explore, to help readers whose interest is spiked to travel further. Complete with an introductory essay that examines the interaction of Science, from Lucretius to Mary Midgeley to now.
“In this unusual and exceptionally interesting work, James Thornton speaks as both a poet who has colonized science and a scientist who speaks a poetic tongue.” --Edward O. Wilson, University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
‘This is a generous book, happy to serve the curiosity, the wonder and humility of science, happening here and there in words that simply send a shudder -Two black holes are about / to marry, a billion years ago - through our sense of time and space.’
– Philip Gross, winner of the T.S.Eliot Prize
“In this unusual and exceptionally interesting work, James Thornton speaks as both a poet who has colonized science and a scientist who speaks a poetic tongue.” --Edward O. Wilson, University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
‘This is a generous book, happy to serve the curiosity, the wonder and humility of science, happening here and there in words that simply send a shudder -Two black holes are about / to marry, a billion years ago - through our sense of time and space.’
– Philip Gross, winner of the T.S.Eliot Prize
162 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 4, 2017
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