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The Hayflick Limit
Matthew Tierney
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Description for The Hayflick Limit
Paperback. Tierney's collection concerns itself with boundaries of the cosmic and sub-atomic and the sadsack creatures in the nexus, human beings. Num Pages: 88 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 142.
Shortlisted for the 2010 Trillium Book Award for Poetry! To 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. The Hayflick Limit 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 ... Read more
Shortlisted for the 2010 Trillium Book Award for Poetry! To 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. The Hayflick Limit 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552452172
SKU
V9781552452172
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About Matthew Tierney
Matthew Tierney is the author of one previous book of poetry, Full speed through the morning dark. He has been published in journals and magazines across Canada. In 2005, he won first and second place in This Magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt. In 2006, he was a recipient of a K. M. Hunter Award. He lives in Toronto.
Reviews for The Hayflick Limit
'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 The Hayflick Limit to the hoop.'
David McGimpsey, author of Li'l Bastard and Sitcom 'Matthew Tierney writes poems like a mad boy scientist. His lines manage to blur ... Read more
David McGimpsey, author of Li'l Bastard and Sitcom 'Matthew Tierney writes poems like a mad boy scientist. His lines manage to blur ... Read more