Author : Midge Goldberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1009203606
Across time and cultures, poets and astronomers have often asked the same questions about outer space, and about ourselves.
Author : Midge Goldberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1009203630
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 NASA 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.
Author : John Foster
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781847804860
Top poets across the English-speaking world present: A Rocketful of Space Poems. This poetry anthology features a space theme throughout, ensuring kids (and their parents) will love every page. Covering everything from space wizards to Peter Pluto’s fast-food superstore, this collection has everything young poets could want. Fly into space, drive to the moon, meet an asteroid dog and a flurb blurp, and then play intergalactic Squibble-Ball. There are wizards and witches in space, as well as Peter Pluto’s fast-food superstore – and the worst monster in the universe… What are you waiting for?!
Author : Laura Purdie Salas
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Children's poetry, American
ISBN : 142961207X
A digital solution for your classroom with features created with teachers and students in mind: * Perpetual license * 24 hour, 7 days a week access * No limit to the number of students accessing one title at a time * Provides a School to Home connection wherever internet is available * Easy to use * Ability to turn audio on and off * Words highlighted to match audio A collection of original, outer space-themed poetry for children accompanied by striking photos. The book demonstrates a variety of common poetic forms and defines poetic devices.
Author : Tracy K. Smith
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 155597659X
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize * Poet Laureate of the United States * * A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * * A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, whose "lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What Would your life say if it could talk? —from "No Fly Zone" With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation.
Author : Allan Wolf
Publisher : Candlewick
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0763680257
Hang on tight for a raucous bounce through the solar system and back — propelled by funny, fanciful, factually sound poems and exuberant illustrations. The universe poured into me. My brain was overloaded. It smoked and glowed red-hot. And then it actually exploded. Ever wonder what the sun has to say about being the closest star to Earth? Or what Pluto has gotten up to since being demoted to a dwarf planet? Or where rocket ships go when they retire? Listen closely, because maybe, just maybe, your head will explode, too. With poetry that is equal parts accurate and entertaining — and illustrations that are positively out of this world — this book will enthrall amateur stargazers and budding astrophysicists as it reveals many of the wonders our universe holds. Space travelers in search of more information will find notes about the poems, a glossary, and a list of resources at the end.
Author : Midge Goldberg
Publisher : Kelsay Books
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781954353916
This may be one of the more accessible poetry collections focusing on mortality and the transience of existence. In seemingly effortless, irresistibly ear-friendly language, Goldberg tees up her manifesto to resonate through the ages, as she grapples with humanity's helplessness versus the devil inside, the march of time forcing us to move on from even our family members, childhood deprivations we spend lifetimes compensating for, music and poetry speaking across generations, parents realizing they may no longer be around when their children understand them, true love only being fully appreciated "close to death," the ghostly resonance ordinary things acquire over time. This is light verse at its darkest and finest. You will have a blast reading these poems, even as they make you "watch . . . infinities blink by." -Anton Yakovlev The first poem in Midge Goldberg's new collection concludes, "I need the frame." Goldberg's artistry provides frames we all need. Her compact poems contain and ponder a variety of objects, situations, and phenomena, from an ice tray to a coffee maker, from GPS to Minnie Mouse. Throughout this rich book, a rewarding principle prevails: Goldberg's deft deployment of forms, and her wry and tender voice, combine to ensure that what her frames enclose they also celebrate. I'm glad I disobeyed the stern injunction of the collection's title, To Be Opened After My Death. -Rachel Hadas What a wonderful collection . . . a genuine pleasure from start to finish. Those familiar with Midge Goldberg's poetry will recognize her originality of wit, formal virtuosity, and knack for inhabiting and reinventing objects as commonplace as an ice tray, a hanging plant, or an empty shell, and making them extraordinary. Fairy tales are reimagined as "SmartTales." A sonnet reveals Minnie Mouse's true nature (and name). Workers at a place called "The Inn" disclose details of their experience with lively intimacy. Philip Larkin needn't have worried that poetry could lose its "pleasure-seeking audience . . . the only audience worth having." This wise and entertaining collection succeeds with flying colors in holding onto that audience for good. -Leslie Monsour, author of The Colosseum Critical Introduction to Rhina P. Espaillat
Author : Nnedi Okorafor
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/ TED
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501195476
A powerful journey from star athlete to sudden paralysis to creative awakening, award-winning science fiction writer Nnedi Okorafor shows that what we think are our limitations have the potential to become our greatest strengths. Nnedi Okorafor was never supposed to be paralyzed. A college track star and budding entomologist, Nnedi’s lifelong battle with scoliosis was just a bump in her plan—something a simple operation would easily correct. But when Nnedi wakes from the surgery to find she can’t move her legs, her entire sense of self begins to waver. Confined to a hospital bed for months, unusual things begin to happen. Psychedelic bugs crawl her hospital walls; strange dreams visit her nightly. Nnedi begins to put these experiences into writing, conjuring up strange, fantastical stories. What Nnedi discovers during her confinement would prove to be the key to her life as a successful science fiction author: In science fiction, when something breaks, something greater often emerges from the cracks. In Broken Places & Outer Spaces, Nnedi takes the reader on a journey from her hospital bed deep into her memories, from her painful first experiences with racism as a child in Chicago to her powerful visits to her parents’ hometown in Nigeria. From Frida Kahlo to Mary Shelly, she examines great artists and writers who have pushed through their limitations, using hardship to fuel their work. Through these compelling stories and her own, Nnedi reveals a universal truth: What we perceive as limitations have the potential to become our greatest strengths—far greater than when we were unbroken. A guidebook for anyone eager to understand how their limitations might actually be used as a creative springboard, Broken Places & Outer Spaces is an inspiring look at how to open up new windows in your mind.
Author : Lisa Messeri
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822373912
In Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored. Making planets into places is central to the daily practices and professional identities of the astronomers, geologists, and computer scientists Messeri studies. She takes readers to the Mars Desert Research Station and a NASA research center to discuss ways scientists experience and map Mars. At a Chilean observatory and in MIT's labs she describes how they discover exoplanets and envision what it would be like to inhabit them. Today’s planetary science reveals the universe as densely inhabited by evocative worlds, which in turn tells us more about Earth, ourselves, and our place in the universe.
Author : Midge C. Goldberg
Publisher :
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 2015-12-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780930982751
An original collection of poetry by Midge Goldberg.
