Table of Contents

Introduction: The Lyric and the American Cosmos
1: The Lyrical Planet: Global Aesthetics and Planetary Ethics
2: "Galaxies of Women": Containment Culture and the Queer Astronomical Lyric
3: "The Moon's Corpse Rising": The Poetic Moon and Imperialist Nostalgia from the U.S. to Kashmir
4: "Out of This World": Cosmopolitanism in Cold War Émigré Poetry
5: "Vast and Unreadable": Tracy K. Smith, Astronomy, and Lyric Opacity in African American Poetry

About the Author

Margaret Greaves is an associate professor of English at Skidmore College. Her research interests include poetry and poetics, the history of science, genre theory, and transnational literature. Her essays have appeared in Contemporary Literature, College Literature, The Journal of Modern Literature, and Seamus Heaney in Context.