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| Genre/Form: | Popular works |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Holub, Miroslav, 1923-1998. Shedding life. Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions ; [Emeryville, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 1997 (OCoLC)606951154 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Miroslav Holub; et al |
| ISBN: | 157131217X 9781571312174 |
| OCLC Number: | 36675987 |
| Description: | 279 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | This Long Disease -- Kidneys and History -- Zen and the Thymus -- The Experiment of 1668 -- Off-the-Wall Inventions -- What Links Me with Ladislaus the Posthumous -- Can Man Create His Double? -- Apes, in Particular -- On Pigs As a Laboratory Vacuum -- The Electron Microscope Tesla 242 D -- The Paranoid Nymphs -- From the Amoeba to the Philosopher -- Trouble on the Spaceship -- A Journey to Jupiter -- The Night Song -- What the Nose Knows -- By Nature Alone -- Symbiotic Tranquility -- Beasts and Freaks -- The Death of Butterflies -- Otters, Beavers, and Me -- Shedding Life -- Unter den Linden -- The Discovery: An Autopsy -- Science and the Corrosion of the Soul -- Whatever the Circumstances -- Science and Morality -- Wisdom As a Metaphor |
| Responsibility: | Miroslav Holub ; translated by David Young ... [et al. ; poems translated by Rebekah Bloyd]. |
Abstract:
Poet and research Holub studies the problem of disease, wherein infection and its aftermath change the course of evolution, society, and human geography.
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