A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson Louis De Paor and whose artistry reveals the

and whose artistry reveals the riches and ruins of our plundered hearts

the harshness of life in Barcelona under Franco

Philip Gross

the poems in Jehanne Dubrow’s Stateside (2010) are remarkable for their subtlety

weather changes

A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson Louis De Paor and whose artistry reveals theRebecca Elson's A Responsibility to Awe reissued as a Carcanet Classic 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.