
The original plan was for this review to appear on the National Space Society’s website but I discovered that fellow NSS book reviewer Emily Carney had beat me to the punch. At this point I have written more than enough haiku to create a book – which I intend to do.

Over the last two plus years I have been writing haiku about space exploration, space settlement, and our solar system.
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First, I was very curious to see how poets had been representing spaceflight and space science, and whether or not I could find inspiration in their writings. I had two reasons for wanting to do this book review. I indicated to Chris that I was interested in reviewing his book and he agreed. It was on the insideNSS platform that I met Christopher Cokinos, one of the editors of the book Beyond Earth’s Edge The Poetry Of Spaceflight. That makes reading and reviewing Beyond Earth’s Edge The Poetry of Spaceflight something of a novel experience for me. While I have done book reviews in the past, they were all of non-fiction books. The same holds true for my tablet, which is filled with ebooks. If you were to look around my office you would see that I am surrounded by book cases filled with technical books about space exploration and planetary science.
