Sister Prometheus: Discovering Marie Curie

By: Douglas Burnet Smith

September 2008
104 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-28-8
$17.00

Douglas Burnet Smith imagines the inner life of a scientific genius, mother, wife and lover in both verse and prose poems. Drawing on fact, but without limiting the boundaries of biographical narrative, Sister Prometheus is a flesh and blood portrait of Marie Curie that subverts history in favour of human nature.

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Reviews

• Review (Anne Burke, Feminist Caucus, 8/1/2011) "This is a remarkable collection from an accomplished poet who uncovers the new historicism in cultural poetics, rather than deconstruction.”
• Poetry Review for the Year 2008 (Thomas Hodd, Journal of Canadian Poetry Volume 25, 2/1/2011) “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.”

Other Titles by Douglas Burnet Smith

• The Killed (2000)
• The Knife-Thrower's Partner (1989)