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Fugitive Horizons
Guernica Editions, Fall 2013
93 pages
Trade Paperback
ISBN13: 9781550717327
ISBN10: 1550717324
English
$5.95 Canada, $5.95 US
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These poems take the reader on a mind-blowing journey across the known micro- and macrocosms to the extreme outer edges of space and time. The counter-intuitive insights of modern science here become reality as we are led to question the representations of our senses. Quantum physics and cosmic relativity, captured in the intimacy of the prevailing sonnet form, create a dynamic challenging the reader to reaffirm the human world in the face of the unknowable.
When you seek a truth at the heart of things/ you become the victim of your own paradigm./ Peel away the skin of an onion and all you get/ is layer after layer of onion -- and tears in your eyes.
Beyond the furthest point that you can see. What exists there? Can it be captured? Can it be measured? Can it be understood? What about the furthest point you can imagine? What exists beyond that horizon? These kinds of questions are turned over and over in Henry Beissel’s Fugitive Horizons. They are studied and considered like the geometric boxes in a crystal lattice.
Rob Thomas, Apt 613 review
Awards
- Ottawa Book Awards (shortlisted)
Reviews
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Write On Ottawa: Songs of science in Henry Beissel’s Fugitive Horizons
Apt613 - November 29, 2014
Books by Henry Beissel
