Binding: Hardcover
Description: Poets and astronomers often ask the same questions. Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? Throughout human history poetry has provided stories about what people observe in the sky. Stars planets comets the moon and space travel are used as metaphors for our feelings of love loneliness adventurousness and awe. This anthology includes poets astronomers and scientists from the 12th century BCE to today from all around the world. Sappho Du Fu Hafez and Shakespeare are joined by Gwyneth Lewis's space requiem Tracy K. Smith on the Hubble telescope and Charles Simic whose poem accompanied a NAS a mission. Astronomers Tycho Brahe and Edmund Halley accompany modern scientists including Rebecca Elson Alice Gorman on the first woman in space and Yun Wang's space journal on travel to Andromeda. This collection reaches across time and cultures to illuminate how we think about outer space and ourselves.
Title: Outer Space: 100 Poems
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781009203609
Pages: 196 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises
Publication Date: 11/24/2022
Category: Astronomy, Space & Time