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Cross-Pollinations
The Marriage of Science and Poetry
by Gary Paul Nabhan
"From almost every scientific discipline has risen a voice that speaks
to the laity in clear and coherent sentences—Stephen Jay Gould from
paleontology, Carl Sagan from astronomy . . . . And there is Gary Paul
Nabhan, an ethnobiologist."—New York Times
"Cross–Pollinations is a book steeped in metaphor, as Nabhan navigates
the mostly uncharted realm between science and poetry."—azdailysun.com
Cross–Pollinations is about dissolving boundaries and blending
disciplines to reveal a world rich in possibility. An accomplished
biologist and writer, Gary Paul Nabhan believes that the free movement
between science and literature, between cultivated and wild habitats,
and between culture and language engenders the kind of unlikely and
seemingly incompatible perceptions that are essential to discovery of
any kind. He illustrates the successful marriage of science and poetry
with true stories about color–blind scientists, the knowledge stored in
ancient Native American songs, the link between an Amy Clampittt poem
and Diabetes research, and the unique collaboration in support of the
Ironwood Forest national Monument.
As a book in the Credo series, Cross–Pollinations is an
exploration of the goals, concerns and practices of this contemporary
American author as he writes the natutral world and human community
into his work.
"A lovely, lyrical little collection of essays. . . . we are reminded
that nature itself draws no artificial boundaries, that science and
poetry intertwine effortlessly in the world around us."—Deborah Blum, Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"Nabhan offers a fresh and stimulating analysis of the crucial role
cross-pollination plays both in nature and in human endeavors. Drawing
on such personal experiences as his own color-blindness to reveal how
an unexpected ‘perceptual shift’ can lead to new understanding, he
recounts how an attentive reading of an O’odham song-poem about the
profound relationship between the sacred datura and the hawkmoth
yielded invaluable scientific knowledge, and how an Amy Clampitt poem
helped him solve the puzzle of how desert foods once protected desert
people from diabetes. Nabhan is at once scientist, mystic, and artist
as he marvels over the surprising results of the usually covert
cross-pollination between art and science, an interaction that truly
does deserve more conscious cultivation."—Donna Seaman, Booklist
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Binding: Paperback
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ISBN: 9781571312709
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