{"product_id":"9781770560918","title":"The Hayflick Limit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2010 Trillium Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo be human is to cope with knowing. In the early sixties, Leonard Hayflick determined that healthy cells can divide only a finite number of times. Known as the Hayflick Limit, the law sets an unsurpassable lifespan for our species at just over 120 years.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hayflick Limit\u003c\/em\u003e concerns itself with boundaries of the cosmic and sub-atomic – how the mind contains both – and the sadsack creatures in the nexus, human beings. What does it mean to be an intelligent species? What does it mean to be an intelligent person?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShifting focus between the limits of the telescope and the limits of the microscope, the poems in Matthew Tierney's second collection place a premium on inventiveness while embracing extremes of fear, pain, cognition and time. With demotic verve and a humming line, he gives voice to a range of characters who scrape out meaning in a carnivalesque universe that has birthed black holes and Warner Bros. cartoons, murky market economies, murkier quantum laws, Vincent Price, Molotov cocktails, seedless grapes, Area 51 and competing Theories of Everything.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The most thoroughly engaged and inventive book of poetry I have read in a long, long time. Brimming with hi-lo wit, keenly apprised and settled with cultured repose, Matthew Tierney takes \u003cem\u003eThe Hayflick Limit\u003c\/em\u003e to the hoop.' — David McGimpsey\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Matthew Tierney writes poems like a mad boy scientist. His lines manage to blur the border between nomenclature and everyday insight ... Call it science fiction for the melancholic.' - \u003cem\u003eEye Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167087673584,"sku":"9781770560918","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770560918_p0.jpg?v=1763706516","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770560918","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}