“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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Published in:Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philologia Vol. 69; no. 3; pp. 121 - 138
Main Author: More, Octavian
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Cluj-Napoca Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai 01.01.2024
Universitatea "Babes-Bolyai"
Cluj University Press
Subjects:
awe
Canadian literature
Elson, Rebecca (1960-1999)
Existentialism
fragmentation
Literary criticism
Other Language Literature
Poetry
Rebecca Elson
unselfing
wholeness
Canada
Montreal Quebec Canada
Rebecca Elson
unselfing
wholeness
fragmentation
awe
ISSN:1220-0484, 2065-9652
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Summary:“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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ISSN:1220-0484
2065-9652
DOI:10.24193/subbphilo.2024.3.07