How I Work as Poet and Scientist Author:RONALD HOFFMANN
Date: March 21, 1988
I begin with a vision of unity of creative work in science and in the humanities and arts. The shared ground is clear: both involve acts of creation, accomplished through craftsmanship, with an attention to detail. Both science and art value the true economy of statement. They share a desire to communicate, although that often gets obscured by jargon and by the deadening ritual of the research report in science, by too personal a style or a disregard for audiences in art. Mind Grackles We are circling, we are flying, beating novice Wings, not in sky’s jig not in courting darts, but g-forces gentled, plying earnest up drafts for lift. It isn’t easy this flying, for something must be forced past, something molecular, and we must learn to curl our wings just right, so that which passes ...
