A knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen

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Publication Year:
2023

ISBN-13: 9781771316040

<p><b>A radiant collection that employs the lyric poem as a tool for scientific and emotional exploration.</b></p> <p>Erin Noteboom's <i>A knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen</i> takes exact and exquisite measurement of what carries a voice through illness, grief, loss, and through the failures and triumphs of work and love. Various theories and hypotheses are tested in these poems: sadness is knowledge and science &#34;is only half a turn from love.&#34; Whether Noteboom is examining the life and work of physicist Marie Curie or compressing imagistic gems from plaintive, important questions like &#34;What lasts?&#34;, there is everywhere in these poems a shadow-scratching curiosity, vital research, and an acknowledgement of the long waits in a life between discoveries. An essential marriage between the arts and science, <i>A knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen</i> is full of poems that readers will savour long after closing their eyes and raising the vial.</p>