A Responsibility to Awe [electronic resource]
Rebecca Elson2018
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Rebecca Elson's A Responsibility to Awe reissued as a Carcanet Classic.
A Responsibility to Awe is a contemporary classic, a book of poems and
reflections by a scientist for whom poetry was a necessary aspect of research,
crucial to understanding the world and her place in it, even as, having
contracted terminal cancer, she confronted her early death. Rebecca Elson was an
astronomer; her work took her to the boundary of the visible and measurable.
'Facts are only as interesting as the possibilities they open up to the
imagination,' she wrote. Her poems, like her researches, build imaginative
inferences and speculations, setting out from observation, undeterred by knowing
how little we can know.
Main title:
A Responsibility to Awe [electronic resource] / Rebecca Elson
Author:
Rebecca Elson, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Carcanet Classics, 2018
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (160 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781784106560
Language:
English
BRN:
428991
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |