Lyric poetry and space exploration from Einstein to the present /
"Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration from Einstein to the Present uncovers a surprising relationship between poetry and space science during and after the Cold War. While literature and science seem to occupy different—even opposing—cultural spheres, lyric poetry has been central to the aims of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration from Einstein to the Present uncovers a surprising relationship between poetry and space science during and after the Cold War. While literature and science seem to occupy different—even opposing—cultural spheres, lyric poetry has been central to the aims of space exploration. NASA, the mainstream media, and pop culture have all called on poetry to exalt and pacify the often militant aims of space exploration. Poets from around the world, meanwhile, have used astronomical figures and discoveries to redress the national and imperial legacies that drove the U.S. and the USSR to the stars. Poets such as Agha Shahid Ali, Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Czesław Miłosz, Adrienne Rich, and Tracy K. Smith use space science to explore the politics of race, sexuality, gender, and national belonging. In the process, they confront the politics of lyric poetry itself, reworking its forms to create cosmopolitan communities that still honor individual identities"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0191959529 9780191959523 9780192693105 0192693107 0192693093 9780192693099 |