Standard candles / Alice Major.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Major, Alice, 1949- author.

Series:

Robert Kroetsch series.

Robert Kroetsch series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmology--Poetry.

Cosmology.

Genre:

Libros electronicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, Alberta : The University of Alberta Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Canadian poet links cosmology, mythology, and the human heart in a range of poetic forms.

Contents:

Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Sonnet for Valentines; The set of all gods; The god of prime numbers; The god of infinities; The god of symmetry; The god of gravity; The god of salt; The god of kites and darts; The god of quantum uncertainty; The god of probabilities; The baker god; The god of automata; The god of teapots; The god of cats; The god of sparrows; The god of hearts; The jeweller god; The god of dark; The god of memory; The muse of universes; Ordinary matter; Ordinary matter; Vacuum fluctuations; The helium thoughts; Advice to the lovelorn

Three-body problemLove in three dimensions; Heavy elements; Local bubble; Catechism; Standard candles; 1 Address | 1959; 2 Clouds of glory | 1908; 3 Pythagorean theorem | 1965; 4 Triangulation | 1808; 5 The end of greatness | 2000; 6 In the Castle of Stars | 1576; 7 Supernova Type 1A | 1997; 8 Then death returns; 9 In all that void; 10 Looking out to the dark | December 1928; 11 d = (X- x)2 + (Y- y)2 + (Z - z)2 - c (T- t)2 | now; A prayer to bring you home; Muscle of difficulty; Muscle of difficulty; Yet another crack in the foundation; Day's eye; Expanding space; The movers' dilemma

Rectangularization of the morbidity curveNow, that amphibious moment; To the generations that will live a thousand years; Last scattering surface; Let us compare cosmologies; 1 Let us compare cosmologies; 2 The Orphic follower; 3 A pope; 4 The evangelist; 5 The philosophical skeptic; 6 The nihilist; 7 The totalitarian; 8 The survivalist; 9 The optimist; 10 The magician; 11 The baker; 12 The consumer; 13 The funeral director; 14 The Manichean; 15 The artist; Sins and virtues; Avarice; Lust; Gluttony; Envy; Pride; Anger; Sloth; Mercy; Hope; Shifting wavelengths; Tortoise and fern

Fingers of GodThe barber's paradox; Zeno's paradox; Twin paradox; Sand reckonings: Eubulides' paradox; Honeycomb conjectures; Bee violet; Optical molasses; Life adapts to inhospitable environments; How to tell a Martian my heart is on the left; Underworlds; Persephone and I are underground; The outer dark; Cocytus; Niflheim; The man with no hands; Each of us the centre of a circle; Postscript; God submits a grant application to the Canada Council; Notes; Acknowledgements; About the Author

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

9781772121186

1772121185

9781772121162

1772121169

OCLC:

910986656