Rebecca Elson

Rebecca Anne Wood Elson (2 January 1960 – 19 May 1999) was a Canadian–American astronomer and writer.

Quotes

• 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

• Iggy McGovern, "Strange Meeting: Science Meets Poetry", The Poetry Ireland Review, no. 108 (2012), p. 57