Book Display: Poetry and Prose for the Eclipse
Get ready for the solar eclipse on Monday, April 8th with a display of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction exploring themes of the sun, the moon, and celestial symbolism.
All items are available for check-out!
For millennia, poets, philosophers, and scientists have been inspired by the sun, the moon, and their convergence. This April, the Library is celebrating both National Poetry Month and the upcoming solar eclipse with a book display that brings together poetry and prose, fiction and nonfiction, the old and the new, the literal and the metaphorical.
All items on the display are available for checkout. The Eclipse Display is located on the first floor of the Library and will be up throughout the month of April.
The display includes the followng works, plus many additional titles:
Poetry:
- Moon Whales and Other Poems by Ted Hughes
- Illuminated Poems by Allen Ginsberg
- An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo
- First Indian on the Moon by Sherman Alexie
- Half of the World in Light by Juan Felipe Herrera
- The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
- Edge by Katrina Porteous
Fiction:
- Moonglow: A Novel by Michael Chabon
- Delirium Eclipse & Other Stories by James Lasdun
- Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
- Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
- Artemis: A Novel by Andy Weir
- Wolves of the Crescent Moon: A Novel by Yusuf Muhaymid
- In This World of Ultraviolet Light: Stories by Raul Palma
Nonfiction (interdisciplinary):
- Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty by Modris Eksteins
- Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
- Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: Georges Méliès’s Trip to the Moon, ed. Matthew Solomon
- The Orbital Perspective by Ron Garan Jr.
- History of Western Astrology by Nicholas Campion
- The Eclipse of Darwinism by Peter Bowler
- Of a Fire on the Moon by Normal Mailer
- Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru by Irene Silverblatt