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 War Surveillance and Queer Opacity -- 2.3 Adrienne Rich's Astronomical "We" -- 2.4 Elizabeth Bishop's Queer Astronomy -- 3. "The Moon's Corpse Rising": The Poetic Moon and Imperialist Nostalgia from the U.S. to Kashmir -- 3.1 The Lost Poetic Moon -- 3.2 Agha Shahid Ali's Lunar Nostalgia -- 3.3 The Cold War Ghazal -- 4. "Out of This World": Cosmopolitanism in Cold War Émigré Poetry -- 4.1 Lyric Otherworlds -- 4.2 Cold War Émigrés and the Gravity of History -- 4.3 Miłosz's Lyric Otherworlds -- 4.4 Heaney's Lyric Otherworlds -- 5. "Vast and Unreadable": Tracy K. Smith, Astronomy, and Lyric Opacity in African American Poetry -- 5.1 Astronomy and African American Poetry -- 5.2 Lyric Opacity -- 5.3 Astrophysics, Science Fiction, and Elegy -- Coda: Poems in Space -- Bibliography -- Index. Margaret Greaves. Includes bibliographical references and index. Lyric poetry History and criticism Poetry, Modern 20th century History and criticism Poetry, Modern 21st century History and criticism Outer space In literature Poésie lyrique Histoire et critique Espace extra-atmosphérique Dans la littérature Poetry 20th Century Modern Astronomy SCIENCE Literature Lyric poetry Poetry, Modern Outer space Literature: history & criticism Literature 1900-2099 fast PN1361 .G74 2023 PS310.S33 G74 2023 809.1409356 Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration from Einstein to the Present Greaves, Margaret Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2023 0191959529 9780191959523 9780192693105 0192693107 0192693093 9780192693099 9780192867452 0192867458 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/46489 YDX 220330 20260318164127.9 in00005696917 eng