Research Catalog

Title

Beyond Earth's edge : the poetry of spaceflight / edited by Julie Swarstad Johnson and Christopher Cokinos ; with an introduction by John M. Logsdon.

Publication

• Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Johnson, Julie Swarstad
• Cokinos, Christopher
• Logsdon, John M., 1937-

Description

xxxi, 248 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 23 cm

Summary

"Beyond Earth's Edge vividly captures the violence of blast-off, the wonders seen by Hubble, and the trajectories of exploration to Mars and beyond through poetry. The anthology offers a fascinating record of both national mindsets and private perspectives as poets grapple with the promise and peril of U.S. space exploration across the decades, and into the present"--

Subjects

• Outer space
• American poetry
• Outer space > Exploration > Poetry
• Exploration of outer space
• 2000-2099
• American poetry > 21st century
• Space flight > Poetry
• Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: SPUTNIK AND THE RACE TO THE MOON -- Sputnik: October 4, 1957 / Corrinne Clegg Hales -- Uncle Bud, Unshaken In The Wake Of Sputnik October 1957 / David Clewell -- The Nazis At White Sands / Christopher Cokinos -- Laika / Frank Paino -- Heel & Toe To The End / William Carlos Williams -- A Lady Astronaut Tests For Space / Enid Shomer -- 21 / Pablo Neru Da -- Moonshotsonnet / Mary Ellen Solt -- After The Flight Of Ranger VII / May Swenson -- Sunset At Laramie / Loren Eiseley -- From Alan / Ronald Duncan -- Space Walk / Raymond Wilson -- Orbiting Ark / John Fairfax -- Poem Rocket / Allen Ginsberg -- For The International Poetry Incarnation / Edwin Morgan -- Landing On The Moon / May Swenson -- Elegy For Three Astronauts / Mary Ellen Solt -- Americanspacesuit / Jesse De Angelis -- The Crew Of Apollo 8 / Elaine V. Emans -- Space / X. J. Kennedy -- Voyage To The Moon / Archibald Macleish -- Walk On The Moon / N. Scott Momaday -- From "Computer 70: Dreams & Lovepoems" / D. M. Thomas -- Astronauts / Robert Hay Den -- The Flight Of Apollo / Stanley Kunitz -- A Farewell, A Welcome / Lisel Mueller -- Apollo / Elizabeth Alexander -- Eva Psalm / Raymond Roseliep -- Annie Pearl Smith Discovers Moonlight / Patricia Smith -- Apollo (1969) / Campbell Mcgrath -- Moon Landing / W. H. Auden -- Moon Song, Woman Song / Anne Sexton -- Lunar / Alyse Bensel -- Captain Lovell / Gabrielle Calvocoressi -- Into Orbit / Al Word En -- Elegy For The Last Man To Walk The Moon / Bruce Bond -- Abandon In Place / Ray Bradbury -- ROBOTIC EXPLORERS -- Pioneer 10 / Donna Kane -- Viking 1 / Brian Turner -- Gold Record / Tomas Q. Morin -- An Open Letter To Voyager II / John Updike -- After Taking The Family Portrait Of The Solar System, Voyager One Understands Herself As Orpheus In Plain Daylight / Jessica Rae Bergamino -- From Voyager / Srikanth Reddy -- From The Voyager Record: A Transmission / Anthony Michael Morena -- Cassini In Heaven / Landis Everson -- From Convexities / Srikanth Reddy -- Voyager 2, Thinking, Types Things / Mark A. Mccutcheon -- Enceladus Considers Cassini / Carolyn Oliver -- How Long Is The Heliopause / Heather Christle -- Psalm 8 / Julie Swarstad Johnson -- HUMANS IN LOW EARTH ORBIT -- Witnessing The Launch Of The Shuttle Atlantis / Howard Nemerov -- Night Launch / Maxine Kumin -- Those Minor Regrets / Adrian Matejka -- The Shuttle / Patrick Mcguinness -- Elegy For Challenger / Diane Ackerman -- My God, It's Full Of Stars / Tracy K. Smith -- Hubble Photographs: After Sappho / Adrienne Rich -- A Photograph From The Hubble Telescope / William Wenthe -- Cosmic Fireflies / Story Musgrave -- A Kiss In Space / Mary Jo Salter -- From "Zero Gravity" / Gwyneth Lewis -- Fallen / Betty Adcock -- The Invisible Bridge / Keith Flynn -- Homeland Security / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- A Brave And Startling Truth / Maya Angelou -- TO THE STARS, WITH DIFFICULTIES -- Afrofuturism / Douglas Kearney -- Hajar, First Woman On The Moon / Mohja Kahf -- Firmament On High / Laurence Goldstein -- From Genesis: An Epic Poem / Frederick Turner -- Still Life On Mars / Brendan Constantine -- Canyon Color / Kim Stanley Robinson -- From "Water On New Mars" / Will Alexander -- Arcadia, Mars / Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers -- Dear Echo / Kyle Dargan -- Pale Blue / C. Wade Bentley -- Spock As A Metaphor For The Construction Of Race During My Childhood / Matthew Olzmann -- From "The Engineer" / Bryan D. Dietrich -- Possible Margins Of Error And Variation In The Matter Stream / Ann Ah Sobelman -- Next Generations / Rae Armantrout -- Endor (Disambiguation) / Hannah Faith Notess -- Space-Wanderer's Homecoming / Peter Viereck -- Dogstarmen / C. S. E. Cooney -- Hammerstone / Peter Milne Greiner -- Star Lodge / Tawa Hum Justin Bige -- Pastoral For Colonial Candidacy / Io Kwa Mei-Enr -- Origami Crane / Light-Defying Spaceship / Naru Dames Sundar -- Neutron Star / Sarah Blake -- Quilting The Black-Eyed Pea (We're Going To Mars) / Nikki Giovanni -- Ode To The Alien / Diane Ackerman.

Call Number

JFE 21-721

ISBN

• 9780816539192
• 0816539197

LCCN

2020010963

OCLC

1145087283

Title

Beyond Earth's edge : the poetry of spaceflight / edited by Julie Swarstad Johnson and Christopher Cokinos ; with an introduction by John M. Logsdon.

Publisher

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Johnson, Julie Swarstad, editor.

Cokinos, Christopher, editor.

Logsdon, John M., 1937- writer of introduction.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-721