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

She has opened up for him her own soul-landscape with its peculiar shapes and intense colours

weather changes

Mandelstam and Celan

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.