Title Lyric poetry and space exploration from Einstein to the present / Margaret Greaves

Published Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource Contents 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 Summary Anchored in the postwar period but drawing on a long history of poetry and science, 'Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration from Einstein to the Present' charts surprising connections between poetry and extraterrestrial space Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 05, 2023) Subject Lyric poetry -- History and criticism Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Poetry, Modern -- 21st century -- History and criticism. Literature Lyric poetry Poetry, Modern Literature: history & criticism. Literature. SUBJECT Outer space -- In literature Subject Outer space Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0191959529 9780191959523 9780192693105 0192693107 0192693093 9780192693099

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