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Sister Prometheus

Discovering Marie Curie

by (author) Douglas Burnet-Smith

Publisher
Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.
Initial publish date
Sep 2008
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894987288
    Publish Date
    Sep 2008
    List Price
    $17.00

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Description

This book imagines the inner life of a scientific genius, mother, wife and lover in both verse and prose poems; an immersion in Marie Curie's life.

About the author

Douglas Burnet Smith (1949) has served as President of the League of Canadian Poets and of the Public Lending Right Commission of Canada. He teaches at St. Francis Xavier University. Smith was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1993 for Voices from a Farther Room (1992) and for the Atlantic Poetry Prize for his most recent collection, The Killed (2000).

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Editorial Reviews

"This is a remarkable collection from an accomplished poet who uncovers the new historicism in cultural poetics, rather than deconstruction." - Feminist Caucus

"But the true captivating force behind this collection is Smith's obvious fascination with a woman at odds with her time... he poetically captures the emotive authenticity of the time in which she lived." - Journal of Canadian Poetry