{"product_id":"zero-kelvin-9781927428450","title":"Zero Kelvin","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Richard Norman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Biblioasis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Biblioasis\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Space Science - Astronomy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresent-day astronomy, vast, complex, is looking through darkness to distant objects and times. Yet its discoveries aren't exclusively scientific: from the moons of Pluto to the Doppler effect, the night sky screens a place where math meets myth. Now, in \u003ci\u003eZero Kelvin\u003c\/i\u003e, in scenes that shift from the mountains of Goma to the mountains of the moon, from galaxies that feast upon their neighbours to a solar sail unfurling above Earth's orbit, Richard Norman's poetry probes both newly glimpsed corners of the universe, and the myths which bring them into focus. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExperiment \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is a human urge--\u003cbr\u003eto orbit backwards at great speed.\u003cbr\u003eExperimentally, you do it\u003cbr\u003eand then the crack of lightning, \u003cbr\u003ethe open-ended snowflake, splits the sky.\u003cbr\u003eJust as the sculptor cut the fat off space, \u003cbr\u003eyou going backwards renders time.\u003cbr\u003eSeconds drop like filings\u003cbr\u003ewhen a magnet is turned off. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eZero Kelvin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"All at once the elements collapse and expand, become inseparable and remote, beautiful and terrifying - this is what Richard Norman's poems do to us. We feel stars, those tiny suns, as words blazing through the page; like dust or sand they leave a residue in our thoughts, worlds deep, so we might inadvertently carry them to work, or to the bed of a lover. Here is where language consumes us, absolute and intangible, between reality and myth.\" --\u003cb\u003eLeigh Kotsildis, author of \u003ci\u003eHypotheticals\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999670550679,"sku":"9781927428450","price":710.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781927428450.webp?v=1783601378","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/zero-kelvin-9781927428450","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}