Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-7-2024

Publication Title

ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews

Volume

7 June 2025

Keywords

9/11, touch, paradise lost, Big Bang

Abstract

Among the best of the poems commemorating the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11, Roberts’ “Last Words” is an important aesthetic achievement. It is subtly unified by motifs of touch, paradise lost, and the Big Bang. Emerging from tv and radio imagery, the Big Bang is symbolically continuous with the explosions that brought down the Twin Towers and is indicative of the ‘fallen’ condition all mortals endure.

Comments

[An expansion of an article entitled ‘The Big Bang: Physics and Metaphysics’, published in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews (7 June 2025), https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2024.2364274]

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