A Responsibility to Awe
Rebecca Elson
This collection of poems and reflections is a contemporary classic by a scientist who found poetry to be an essential part of her research. Despite facing terminal cancer, the author continued to explore the world and her place in it through her work as an astronomer. Her poems and reflections offer imaginative insights, building on observation and transcending the limits of what we can know.
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2021-05-19T14:02:01.000Z
"Sometimes as an antidote
To fear of death,
I eat the stars."
Astronomer Rebecca Elson died on this day in 1939, not yet forty, leaving behind 56 scientific papers and a slender, stunning book of poems. Here is her best: – source