Outer space : 100 poems / edited by Midge Goldberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldberg, Midge, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Outer space--Poetry.

Outer space.

Physical Description:

xix, 177 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Collected songs from the ballad-mistress

Unknown (Ancient Egyptian Love Songs, Chester Beatty I Papyrus)

2. Psalm 8: For the Leader; upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David

3. From The Iliad, Book XVIII

Homer

4. Sappho 34

5. From De rerum natura, Book 2

Lucretius

6. From Carmina

Catullus

7. From Georgics, Book 4

Virgil

8. Subhasitaratnakosha 905

[Bhasa?]

9. Full Moon

Du Fu

10. From "The Old English Phoenix"

Unknown (Old English)

11. From Inferno: Canto XXVI

Dante

12. I saw the green fields of the sky ...

Hafez

13. From The Canterbury Tales, "The Nun's Priest's Tale"

Geoffrey Chaucer

14. Those Who Build Houses and Temples

Unknown (Mayan)

15. Love the Light Giver

Michelangelo

16. Urania

Tycho Brahe

17. From "Epithalamion"

Edmund Spenser

18. Astrophil and Stella: 31 With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies / Sir Philip Sidney

19. From The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Scene 6 / Christopher Marlowe

20. From Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1

William Shakespeare

21. From "The Anatomy of the World" / John Donne

22. Cynthia's Revels: Queen and huntress, chaste and fair / Ben Jonson

23. From Paradise Lost, Book X / John Milton

24. From The Song of the Three Children, Paraphrase! / Lady Mary Chudleigh

25. On the incomparable Isaac Newton / Edmund Halley

26. On a Survey of the Heavens / Mercy Otis Warren

27. From "A Summer Evening's Meditation" / Anna Laetitia Barbauld

28. Threatening Signs / Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

29. On Imagination / Phyllis Wheatley

30. To the Evening Star / William Blake

31. Sonnet to the Moon / Helen Maria Williams

32. Star-gazers / William Wordsworth

33. Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon / Samuel Coleridge

34. To the Moon / Percy Bysshe Shelley

35. The Constellations / William Cullen Bryant

36. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats

37. Winter Morning / Alexander Pushkin

38. From "Song of Nature" / Ralph Waldo Emerson

39. From A Drama of Exile, Scene 3 / Elizabeth Barrett Browning

40. The Light of Stars / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

41. From "Al Aaraaf" / Edgar Allan Poe

42. From "Timhuctoo" / Lord Tennyson

43. Love / Henry David Thoreau

44. When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer / Walt Whitman

45. Sorrows of the Moon / Charles Baudelaire

46. The Philosopher and the Stars / Matthew Arnold

47. A Grain of Sand / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

48. To a Star Seen at Twilight / John Rollin Ridge

49. Emigravit / Helen Hunt Jackson

50. The Mother Moon / Louisa May Alcott

51. I Know Not What I Seek Eternally / Rosalia De Castro

52. The Old Astronomer / Sarah Williams

53. Waiting Both / Thomas Hardy

54. "

- I am like a slip of comet" / Gerard Manley Hopkins

55. A Solar Eclipse / Ella Wheeler Wilcox

56. Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall / A. E. Housman

57. Earth / Oliver Herford

58. Starlight / Laurence Hope

59. The Cat and the Moon / William Butler Yeats

60. Alfonso Churchill / Edgar Lee Masters

61. To Halley's Comet / Alice Berlingett

62. A Song of a Navajo Weaver / Bertrand N. O. Walker

63. A Starry Night / Paul Laurence Dunbar

64. The Star-Splitter / Robert Frost

65. Stars / Sara Teasdale

66. The Song of the Stars

Unknown (Passamaquoddy)

67. A Song of the Moon / Claude McKay

68. From "Renascence" / Edna St. Vincent Millay

69. Ballad of the Moon, Moon / Federico Garcia Lorca

70. Chant

Unknown (Dinka Nilotic Sudan)

71. Witnessing the Launch of the Shuttle Atlantis / Howard Nemerov

72. The First Men on Mercury / Edwin Morgan

73. In the Field / Richard Wilbur

74. High Flight / John Gillespie Magee Jr.

75. Delay / Elizabeth Jennings

76. Ladder to the Moon / X. J. Kennedy

77. For My Great-Great Grandson the Space Pioneer/Para Mi Tataranieto el Astropionero / Rhina P. Espaillat

78. Eclipse / Linda Pastan

79. Galaxies / Janet Kenny

80. The Ballet of the Eight-Week Kittens / Deborah Warren

81. Rainy Eclipse / Leslie Monsour

82. Flammarion Woodcut Pilgrim Redux / Catherine Chandler

83. The Loneliest Road / Martin Elster

84. The Magician's Bashful Daughter / Alfred Nicol

85. Other's Paradox / Robert W. Crawford

86. JANUARY 22, 2003, OR THE DAY NASA SENT ITS LAST OFFICIAL SIGNAL TO PIONEER 10 / Donna Kane

87. Zero Gravity: A Space Requiem / Gwyneth Lewis

88. 3 Nights of the Perseids / Ned Balbo

89. Carnal Knowledge / Rebecca Elson

90. Fermi's Paradox / John Foy

91. Here now the Sun: a poem for Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space / Alice Gorman

92. Space Journal: Serendipity / Yun Wang

93. Sergei Krikalev on the Space Station Mir / Jay Ruzesky

94. My Father's Kites / Allison Joseph

95. C.E. / Bill Coyle

96. On the Nearest Pass of Mars in 60,000 Years / A. E. Stallings

97. Dr. Rendezvous Takes Communion on the Moon / Liz Ahl

98. From "My God, It's Full of Stars" / Tracy K. Smith

99. Relativity / Sarah Howe

100. Included by NASA in a July 2011 Mission to Jupiter / Charles Simic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781009203609

1009203606

OCLC:

1338672333