“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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| Abstract | “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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| AbstractList | “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.
"Strălucind de sunet în întunericul intraductibil"—poezia de înțelepciune cosmică a Rebeccăi Elson. În ciuda faptului că ne-a lăsat un număr restrâns de versuri, adunate în volumul postum A Responsibility to Awe (2001), astrofiziciana și poeta Rebecca Elson, născută la Montreal, impresionează printr-o sensibilitate deosebită, rezultată din contopirea neobișnuită a certitudinii pozitiviste și a angoasei existențiale inspirate de un sentiment acut al propriei finitudini biologice. În această lucrare, concepută atât ca efort de recuperare, cât și ca exercițiu de interpretare, vom încerca să punem în lumină modul în care poezia, așa cum demonstrează cazul lui Elson, poate fi un demers esențialmente ecologic și o căutare disciplinată a apartenenței, amintindu-ne că până și cele mai banale aspecte ale existenței noastre cotidiene sunt irevocabil legate de conexiunile noastre profunde cu universul.
Cuvinte-cheie: Rebecca Elson, fragmentare, integralitate, uitare de sine, venerație.
Article history: Received 15 May 2024; Revised 15 August 2024; Accepted 10 September 2024; Available online 30 September 2024; Available print 30 September 2024. 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. “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. “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. "Strălucind de sunet în întunericul intraductibil"—poezia de înțelepciune cosmică a Rebeccăi Elson. În ciuda faptului că ne-a lăsat un număr restrâns de versuri, adunate în volumul postum A Responsibility to Awe (2001), astrofiziciana și poeta Rebecca Elson, născută la Montreal, impresionează printr-o sensibilitate deosebită, rezultată din contopirea neobișnuită a certitudinii pozitiviste și a angoasei existențiale inspirate de un sentiment acut al propriei finitudini biologice. În această lucrare, concepută atât ca efort de recuperare, cât și ca exercițiu de interpretare, vom încerca să punem în lumină modul în care poezia, așa cum demonstrează cazul lui Elson, poate fi un demers esențialmente ecologic și o căutare disciplinată a apartenenței, amintindu-ne că până și cele mai banale aspecte ale existenței noastre cotidiene sunt irevocabil legate de conexiunile noastre profunde cu universul. Cuvinte-cheie: Rebecca Elson, fragmentare, integralitate, uitare de sine, venerație. Article history: Received 15 May 2024; Revised 15 August 2024; Accepted 10 September 2024; Available online 30 September 2024; Available print 30 September 2024. |
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