Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey - found in her sublime poetry collection Life on Mars ( public library). Smith.Īt The Universe in Verse, Smith read the final section of her long, beautiful poem “My God, It’s Full of Stars” - a title borrowed from Arthur C. One of those early engineers was the father of Pulitzer-winning poet Tracy K.
Half a century after the inception of Hubble’s Law, in the late 1970s, engineers began work on an astronomical apparatus more ambitious than any previous human attempt to observe the universe: the Hubble Space Telescope, which launched into orbit in 1990. Her data later became the foundation upon which Edwin Hubble formulated what is now known as Hubble’s Law - the first observational indication that the universe is expanding. …….At the turn of the twentieth century, Henrietta Swan Leavitt - one of the remarkable astronomers known as the Harvard Computers, women who did significant cosmological work long before they could vote - made a discovery that allowed astronomers to calculate the distance between Earth and faraway galaxies for the first time. 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.
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.
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. You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.
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