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A Responsibility to Awe (2e)Rebecca ElsonEdited by Anne Berkeley, Angelo di Cintio and Bernard O'Donoghue
Categories: 21st Century, American, Bestsellers, Canadian, Women
Imprint: Carcanet Classics Edition: 2nd Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback 2e (160 pages) (Pub. Sep 2018) 9781784106553 £12.99 £11.69 eBook (EPUB) 2e Needs ADE! (Pub. Sep 2018) 9781784106560 £10.39 £9.35 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
Rebecca Elson's A Responsibility to Awe reissued as a Carcanet Classic Featured on The Telegraph's Christmas Books 2018 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.
'If Stephen Hawkin's last book opened your eyes to science writing, Rebecca Elson's reissued A Responsibility to Awe will open your heart to it.'
Tristram 'With great poignancy, she shows us the world through the eyes of a human being faced by her finite time.' The Economist Books of the Year, 2001 |
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