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A knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen / Erin Noteboom.

by Noteboom, Erin, 1972-

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Brick Books, 2023.

Canadian poetry -- 21st century.

9781771316026 (pbk.)

83 p. : portrait ; 22 cm.

"A radiant collection that employs the lyric poem as a tool for scientific and emotional exploration. Erin Noteboom's A knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen 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 sadness is knowledge and science "is only half a turn from love." Whether Noteboom is examining the life and work of physicist Marie Curie or compressing imagistic gems from plaintive, important questions like "What lasts?", 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, A knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen is full of poems that readers will savour long after closing their eyes and raising the vial."--Back cover.

Erin Noteboom was trained as particle physicist, and held student jobs at Los Alamos Labs and the CERN supercollider before a health crisis made her reconsider her life and put poetry in the middle of it. This is her third book of poetry, but the first to use the tools and mine the riches of science. Erin has a secret identity as children's novelist Erin Bow - her six novels include the modern classic Plain Kate and the Governor General Literary Award-winning Stand on the Sky -- and a day job as a science writer for the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. She lives in Kitchener, Ontario.

Canadian poetry.

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