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In this chapter, I offer eight biosemiotic concepts or principles and then eight corresponding sets of writing prompts, the idea being to help readers explore the biosemiotic connections between nature and culture, semiosis and writing, and science and literature. As Kalevi Kull has written, biosemiotics is “all about” “finding the poetic or poetic-like processes in living systems” (Biosemiotics 10:17, 2017); therefore, good biosemioticians understand the artfulness of nature itself; and good poets and practitioners of biosemiotic criticism understand the need for powerful modes of scientific analysis.
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Coletta, W.J. (2021). Epilogue: The Poet as Scientist; The Scientist as Poet. In: Biosemiotic Literary Criticism. Biosemiotics, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72495-5_8
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