Graywolf press mai 2015 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known itIn the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake of high-profile disasters like Challenger, that dream has ended. In early 2011, Margaret Lazarus Dean traveled to Cape Canaveral for NASA's last three space shuttle launches in order to bear witness to the end of an era. With Dean as our guide to Florida's Space Coast and to the history of NASA, Leaving Orbit takes the measure of what American spaceflight has achieved while reckoning with its earlier witnesses, such as Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, and Oriana Fallaci. Along the way, Dean meets NASA workers, astronauts, and space fans, gathering possible answers to the question: What does it mean that a spacefaring nation won't be going to space anymore.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'If Goldbarth belongs to a school, he is surely its sole member. He's simply . . . one of our most generous working poets.' -RumpusAnd youperhaps don't like this poem: its free verseor its narrative or the way it usesgender or the heavy-handedword-play of its title.Like I care.I wrote this for me. -from ''Try the Selfish''In his latest collection, the incomparable Albert Goldbarth explores all things 'self-ish': the origins of identity, the search for ancestry, the neurology of self-awareness, and the line between 'self' and 'other.' Whether one line long or ten pages, whether uproariously comic or steeped in gravitas, these are poems that address our human essence.…