“SHINING WITH SOUND IN THE UNTRANSLATABLE DARK”—REBECCA ELSON’S POETRY OF COSMIC WISDOM
“Shining with sound in the untranslatable dark”—Rebecca Elson’s Poetry of Cosmic Wisdom. Despite having left us only a small body of verse, collected in the posthumously published A Responsibility to Awe (2001), Montreal-born astrophysicist and poet Rebecca Elson impresses through a particular sensi...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philologia Jg. 69; H. 3; S. 121 - 138 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cluj-Napoca
Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
01.01.2024
Universitatea "Babes-Bolyai" Cluj University Press |
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| ISSN: | 1220-0484, 2065-9652 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | “Shining with sound in the untranslatable dark”—Rebecca Elson’s Poetry of Cosmic Wisdom. Despite having left us only a small body of verse, collected in the posthumously published A Responsibility to Awe (2001), Montreal-born astrophysicist and poet Rebecca Elson impresses through a particular sensibility resulting from the unlikely union of positivist certitude and existential angst informed by an acute sense of one’s biological finitude. In this paper, intended both as a recuperative effort and an interpretive exercise, we will try to shed light on how poetry, as Elson’s case demonstrates, can be a fundamentally ecological effort and a disciplined quest for belonging, reminding us that even the most unremarkable aspects of our everyday existence are irrevocably linked to our profound connections with the universe. |
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| Bibliographie: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 |
| ISSN: | 1220-0484 2065-9652 |
| DOI: | 10.24193/subbphilo.2024.3.07 |