{"product_id":"the-hayflick-limit-matthew-tierney-9781552452172","title":"The Hayflick Limit","description":"\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2010 Trillium Book Award for Poetry \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hayflick Limit\u003c\/i\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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Tierney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1552452174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781552452172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 4.90w x 0.30d","brand":"Matthew Tierney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372411179263,"sku":"9781552452172","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cbeaa464-f75e-48dd-892f-ea2f1c4d6fd6.jpg?v=1732725870","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-hayflick-limit-matthew-tierney-9781552452172","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}