To celebrate the launch of our April title, New and Selected Poems by Henri Coulette, we are offering a 20% discount on some of our bestselling classics with code CLASSICCARC.
Read an excerpt from one of our featured classics, A Responsibility to Awe:
OncoMouse, Kitchen Mouse
Mouse, whose cousins gave
Their many lives for me
Under the needle and the knife,
The awful antiseptic smells,
Whose little bodies
Manufactured murine things
That learned to fight my battle
In my blood,
Here is my kitchen.
Make it yours.
Eat all my crumbs.
I hear you down there in the dark
When your cousins in my head
Are waking up,
Whiskers stirring synapses,
Sharp tail points flicking
At the base of my skull.
Cozy up behind my fridge
But watch out for the trap,
The why-me box.
Once you’ve started in
It snaps you shut.
From A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson
About the book:
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. ‘Facts are only as interesting as the possibilities they open up to the imagination,’ she wrote. Her poems, like her researches, build imaginative inferences and speculations, setting out from observation, undeterred by knowing how little we can know.
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