Rebecca Elson
Appearance
Rebecca Anne Wood Elson (2 January 1960 – 19 May 1999) was a Canadian–American astronomer and writer.
Quotes
[edit]- Sometimes, I confess,
Starlight seems too sharp, And like the moon
I bend my face to the ground,
To the small patch where each foot falls,
Before it falls, And I forget to ask questions,
And only count things.- "We Astronomers", in A Responsibility to Awe (Carcanet Press, 2001)
- Cp. Walt Whitman, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" (1867)
External links
[edit]- Iggy McGovern, "Strange Meeting: Science Meets Poetry", The Poetry Ireland Review, no. 108 (2012), p. 57