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mods: Lyric poetry and space exploration from Einstein to the present Greaves, Margaret creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. enk 2023 2023 monographic eng remote 1 online resource : illustrations "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. Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Permissions -- Introduction: The Lyric and the American Cosmos -- I.1 The Lyric and the Cosmos -- I.2 The Lyric and the Cosmic Scale -- I.3 The American Lyric in Space -- I.4 The Lyric in Cold War Culture -- I.5 The Lyric in the New Space Age -- 1. The Lyrical Planet: Global Aesthetics and Planetary Ethics -- 1.1 The Planet and the Nation -- 1.2 Planetary Apostrophe -- 1.3 Lyrical Astronauts and Apollo's Eye -- 1.4 Lyricizing the Planet -- 1.5 Dreaming of Other Worlds -- 2. "Galaxies of Women": Containment Culture and the Queer Astronomical Lyric -- 2.1 The Space Age and the "Breakthrough" Narrative -- 2.2 Cold Wa…