German poetry of the 1990s is characterized by an intenseexamination of its relationshipwith the sciences. This book focuses on the works of the authors Durs Grünbein and Ulrike Draesner, two of the most important contemporary German poets, who increasingly take up scientific questions and motifs in their poems and essayistic texts on the nature and function of poetry. The study provides an important contribution to the current discussion on “Literature and Science”.