we could’ve sent a poet into space…

The Universe in Verse:

by Maria Popova, North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing, 2024

95 pages

Poetry can be everywhere.

Poets can talk about anything.

Poets can experience everything,

and imagine everything.

For science, the same is true.

For scientists, the same is true.

Maria Popova offers one way of manifesting and combining these truths in The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder Through Science & Poetry.

Wanna know what a poet thinks about pi?

Wanna know what Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote about Euclid?

Wanna know why Carl Sagan successfully sought a Voyager picture of Earth, the “pale blue dot” in our solar system?

Wanna know why an astronomer wrote a poem about “dark matter”?

Read The Universe in Verse. Then read it again.

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