A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson Dean Wilson and decapitates the intruder with

and decapitates the intruder with his own axe

Praise for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:

Guardian [on the third edition of Poems]

Szymborska

in puzzlement

A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson Dean Wilson and decapitates the intruder withRebecca Elson's A Responsibility to Awe reissued as a Carcanet Classic A Responsibility to Awe is a contemporary classic, a book of poems and reflections by a scientist for whom poetry was a necessary aspect of research, crucial to understanding the world and her place in it, even as, having contracted terminal cancer, she confronted her early death. Rebecca Elson was an astronomer; her work took her to the boundary of the visible and measurable.