A Responsibility to Awe
A Responsibility to Awe

A Responsibility to Awe

Poems

POETRY

144 Pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2

Formats: Paperback

Paperback, $19.95 (CA $21.95) (US $19.95)

Publication Date: April 2002

ISBN 9781903039540

Price: $19.95
 
 

Overview

This collection demonstrates Rebecca Elson's ability to trace space through poetry. Through her work as an astronomer, Elson redefined her understanding of known human forces such as hope, fear, love, and hunger. The resulting poems make inferences an speculate, setting out always from meticulous observation and making it possible to understand how space curves, how individuals create universes of their own, and how there is much more to experience than perceptions allow. This work includes extracts from her notebooks as well as an autobiographical essay.

Author Biography

Rebecca Elson completed her Ph.D. in astronomy at Cambridge, where she received an Isaac Newton Scholarship. She began publishing her poetry while working on her first Hubble space telescope data at Princeton and researching at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics. She died in Cambridge in 1999.
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