| Lord Brain Contributor(s): Beasley, Bruce (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820327301 ISBN-13: 9780820327303 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2005 Annotation: Thirty-one poems form an extended meditation on the psyche and its relationship to the brain, winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2005000962 |
| Series: Contemporary Poetry (Univ of Georgia Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.56" W x 8.52" (0.34 lbs) 95 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lord Brain is an extended meditation on the psyche (in its double sense of mind and soul) in its relationship to that three-pound bundle in our skull. Bruce Beasley's collection of thirty-one poems is named for Sir Walter Russell Brain, or Lord Brain (1895-1966), the eminent British neuroscientist and author of Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System. Bringing into conversation the disparate fields of neuroscience, theology, linguistics, particle physics, and theology, these poems investigate in both lyrical and scientific terms the relationship of brain to mind and soul, and of brain to the cosmos and God. Whether discussing cosmology or astrophysics, neurobiology or insect physiology, Lord Brain connects the inner cosmos of our human anatomy with the external forces (material and divine) that brought the cosmos into being. |
Contributor Bio(s): Beasley, Bruce: - BRUCE BEASLEY, professor of English at Western Washington University, has won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and two Pushcart Prizes in poetry. Among his four previous poetry collections are Summer Mystagogia (selected by Charles Wright for the 1996 Colorado Prize in Poetry) and Signs and Abominations. |