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Space Administration plunders NASA's voice transcription of the first day of the Apollo 11 moon mission, uncovering a book of conceptual poetry that reimagines the erasure process as "spacecraft" (which is to say, the "crafting of space"). The book envisions its writing process as a venture of space exploration. Readers encounter a void populated by columns of numerical time-codes and by constellations of words. These textual "star-charts" evo...

The hands of humans split the atom and reshaped the world. Gradually revealing a sublime nightmare that begins with spontaneous nuclear fission in the protozoic and ends with the omnicide of the human race, The Manhattan Project traces the military, cultural, and scientific history of the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear power through searing lyric, procedural, and visual poetry.Ken Hunt's poetry considers contemporary life-life in t...

Fifty years ago, in July 1969, human beings embarked on an epic journey to land on the moon. Now, in July 2019, poet Ken Hunt utilizes NASA's Apollo 11 voice transcription document, a chronicle of the first six days of that mission, to create The Odyssey, an erasure poem of star charts carved from the technical jargon and offhand remarks found in that transmission.

Fraught with fatal mishaps and disastrous near misses, the missions of the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States defined an era and exemplified the global socio-political conflict of the Cold War. The Lost Cosmonauts by Ken Hunt is an elegy to humanity's fledgling efforts to explore outer space, and to those who lost their lives in pursuit of this goal. This wide-ranging collection of poems looks deep into the largely unexp...

Geben wir es ruhig zu: Die Anderen sind manchmal seltsam. Sie essen seltsame Dinge. Sie benehmen sich seltsam. Sie sind mal zu steif und mal ein bisschen zu locker. Sie lachen über Dinge, die nicht lustig sind.Das ist bei den Australiern nicht anders: Wer eine Zeit lang unter Australiern lebt, wird sich über das ein oder andere wundern. Die Fremdenversteher liefern Antworten: Knapp, bissig und voller überraschender Einsichten. Am Ende ist klar...

Appearances are deceptive"Never make the error of underestimating the Aussies. They love to portray a casual disregard for everything around them, but no-one accidentally achieves a lifestyle as relaxed as theirs." "Logic down under"Aussies will twist any statistics to their own ends. One statistic doing the rounds was that 40% of drivers in accidents had been drinking. Since this left 60% of drivers who hadn't had a drop, but who still had ac...