{"product_id":"9781927428467","title":"Zero Kelvin","description":"\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.ExperimentIt is a human urge—to orbit backwards at great speed.Experimentally, you do itand then the crack of lightning,the open-ended snowflake, splits the sky.Just as the sculptor cut the fat off space,you going backwards renders time.Seconds drop like filingswhen a magnet is turned off.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eZero Kelvin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174455886064,"sku":"9781927428467","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781927428467_p0.jpg?v=1763638162","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781927428467","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}