Research Catalog

Title

Orrery : poems / Donna Kane.

Author

Kane, Donna (Poet)

Publication

• Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, [2020]
• ©2020

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

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