Quark for Mister Mark

101 Poems about Science

By: Maurice Riordan

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Paperback | 2 October 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Quark,n. (Phys.) One of three hypothetical components of elementary particles [from: 'Three quarks for Muster Mark!' in Joyce's Finnegans Wake] - The Concise Oxford Dictionary.

In a wonderfully eclectic and lively selection of poems, this anthology counters the notion that science and poetry are magnetically opposed. The model of the two cultures has collapsed. Just as poets write about science and about recent scientific ideas, so too science has reached out to the language of poetry for its own intimations on the wilder shore of the here and the elsewhere. A Quark for Mister Mark includes poems, old and new, whose subject is science - its discoveries, its processes - but also poems which look at the world with an inherently scientific gaze, whether before Copernicus or after Einstein.

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Introduction
On Looking up by Chance at the Constellations	p. 3
After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics	p. 4
We want no dead weights on this expedition	p. 6
from Orchestra	p. 7
Physical Universe	p. 13
The dissolution of the world proovd from the mortality of every part	p. 16
Cascadilla Falls	p. 17
The Black Stars	p. 19
The Doctor of Starlight	p. 20
In the Lab with the Lady Doctor	p. 22
Ode upon Doctor Harvey	p. 24
from The art of Preserving Health	p. 27
Calcium	p. 29
from The Spleen	p. 31
The Urine Specimen	p. 32
The Man Whose Smile Made Medical History	p. 33
The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument	p. 35
from Nosce Teipsum	p. 36
from Of the progress of the Soul	p. 38
The Lover	p. 40
Entropy	p. 41
More Machines	p. 42
Arguing Bartusiak	p. 43
Translation from an Unwritten Poem	p. 45
A Foreplay	p. 46
The Ex-queen among the Astronomers	p. 48
The Golden Wall	p. 50
Ontario	p. 53
from The Elephant in the Moon	p. 55
Brief Reflection on Accuracy	p. 60
Four Quartz Crystal Clocks	p. 62
Cicadas	p. 64
from The House of Fame	p. 65
'Split the Lark'	p. 68
On a Bird Singing in Its Sleep	p. 69
Sea Mouse	p. 70
from The Seasons	p. 71
On the Ice-Islands Seen Floating in the Germanic Ocean	p. 74
Snow	p. 77
from Jubilate Agno	p. 80
Staines Waterworks	p. 83
In the Bath	p. 86
Lay of the Trilobite	p. 88
The Fish in the Stone	p. 91
Of many Worlds in the World	p. 93
from Greatness in Little	p. 94
Design	p. 95
In the Likeness of a Grasshopper	p. 96
Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold	p. 97
At It	p. 99
from An Essay on Man	p. 100
Science	p. 102
The Mad Cow Talks Back	p. 104
Still Life	p. 105
The Cloud Chamber	p. 106
Curie	p. 108
The Innocence of Radium	p. 109
The Visible Baby	p. 111
Shadows in the Water	p. 112
Reflections	p. 115
Monet Refuses the Operation	p. 116
Modes of Representation	p. 118
Tested	p. 120
Pleasures of a Technological University	p. 121
Mobius Strip-Tease	p. 123
Homage to Godel	p. 126
Amphibiology	p. 128
The Naked Ape	p. 129
Heredity	p. 131
from In Memoriam	p. 132
from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle	p. 136
Seed Leaves	p. 139
Kew Gardens	p. 141
My Father Shaving Charles Darwin	p. 143
Clover Honey	p. 145
from The Enquiry	p. 149
Lamarck Elaborated	p. 151
Touch	p. 152
from The Ascent of Man	p. 153
from Letter to Mary Gisborne	p. 155
The Atom	p. 158
Your Attention Please	p. 159
Tar	p. 161
The Sun Underfoot among the Sundews	p. 164
from Killing Time	p. 166
Dear Isaac Newton	p. 169
Giving in	p. 171
The Scale of Intensity	p. 173
Earthling	p. 175
Westering	p. 176
'I am like a slip of comet'	p. 178
from A Summer Evening's Meditation	p. 179
Letter I	p. 180
The Man with the Hoe	p. 181
The Electric Orchard	p. 184
from Of the Pythagorean Philosophy	p. 186
Not Yet Found	p. 191
Mt Gabriel	p. 192
'Thule, the period of Cosmography	p. 193
About Planck Time	p. 194
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Acknowledgements	p. 200
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