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Orrery : poems

Title
Orrery : poems / Donna Kane.
Author
Kane, Donna (Poet)
Publication
  • Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, [2020]
  • ©2020

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Additional Authors
White, Silas
Description
80 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"Orrery is a collection that orbits around the theme of Pioneer 10, an American space probe launched in 1972 to study Jupiter's moons. Having achieved many firsts before reaching Jupiter and a few more after being hurled away from the solar system, the probe was retired in 2003 when NASA stopped sending signals to it, leaving it to wander alone through deep space. On a trajectory that may long outlast Earth, Pioneer has transformed from a finite object into an infinite one, a muddling of the mundane and the sublime, of mortality and immortality, that is echoed throughout the collection: "I could have been a dancer, a stunt double, / and you, Pioneer 10, a pop can, a pie plate, / a gear driving the orrery of all you sail beyond." Inhabiting the perceived imaginative and philosophical space of the probe, Kane's poems ignite a radical empathy in which human beings, caterpillars, stars, animal bones and other hunks of the material stuff of the universe are seen to share a common condition. Exploring ideas of materiality, consciousness, transformation and space travel, Orrery is as exquisite as its namesake, a compact vision of our world that helps us to orient ourselves in time and space, inspiring wonder."--
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections
Alternative Title
Poems.
Subject
Pioneer 10 (Spacecraft) > Poetry
Genre/Form
Poetry.
Note
  • "Edited by Silas White"--Title page verso.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: I -- Oh Be a Fine Girl, Kiss Me -- March 2, 1972, Forecast for Northern BC -- Dear Pioneer 10 -- Letter to the Scientists at the Ames Research Center -- Jupiter's Great Red Spot -- Depiction of a Man and a Woman on the Pioneer 10 Space Probe Plaque -- The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You -- Pioneer 10, 1 Hear You -- Pioneer 10 Parsed -- Eulogy for Analog -- January 22, 2003, or the Day NASA Sent Its Last Official Signal to Pioneer 10 -- Space Shuttle Columbia -- Microraptor gui -- Pioneer 10 Instruments -- On the Material World -- II -- Ascension -- Vancouver, August 2018 -- To Us -- Autumn -- Probability -- Museums of Natural History -- Opposable Thumb -- Epiphenomenalism -- Blizzard -- Ghost Off the Coast of Sandspit, October 27, 2012 -- Resonant Frequency -- Phone Survey -- Bitten -- The Abyss -- Grounded -- Magpies -- Visitation -- What If Nostalgia Is the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End -- Breastbone -- III -- April -- Consciousness -- Consciousness II -- Fault Lines -- Fungus Love -- Slinky -- Tasseography -- Aubade -- Intrusions -- Absorption III -- On the Dilemma of Mind and Body -- Heron and Fish -- Horse Chestnut -- The Measurer, the Measuring Device and the Thing Being Measured -- On Closed Systems -- Snow Day -- Antlers -- Medium -- Large Blue -- Whistling Thorn -- Nomenclature.
Call Number
JFE 21-9189
ISBN
  • 9781550179187
  • 1550179187
LCCN
2020445630
OCLC
1154721113
Author
Kane, Donna (Poet), author.
Title
Orrery : poems / Donna Kane.
Publisher
Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, [2020]
Copyright Date
©2020
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
White, Silas, editor.
Other Form:
Online version: Kane, Donna, 1959- Orrery. Madeira Park, British Columbia : Harbour Publishing, 2020 1550179195 9781550179194 (OCoLC)1154721464
Research Call Number
JFE 21-9189
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