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FIRST STAR I SEE TONIGHT invites the scientist and poet to set aside
their differences for a night—to come outside, stand very still as the
sun sets, feel the earth turning eastward, be dazzled by a moonrise,
catch a falling star, walk with constellations, ride a rocket to
Jupiter space, and finally look back at the Home Planet with new eyes.
In poetry, prose, and picture, author/poet Robert Eklund and
illustrator Virginia Hoge have created a unique mix of astronomy and
art that asks you to join them in the billion-year mission of
“descrambling the wonder, outside and inside.”
FIRST STAR The evening burns, One star looks down And if the light The darkest night
— Robert L. Eklund
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"In his marvellous book
First Star I See Tonight,
Bob Eklund follows the tradition of those few writers who don’t tell
us how to appreciate the sky, but why we must.” — David H. Levy, Jarnac Observatory, “Mr. Eklund’s objective verse is very bracing in these subjective days. As most gloriously shown in Loren Eiseley, a science–art combination can have a stereoscopic effect, rich in substance and creative tension. I found many of the haiku arresting—a swift, sharp focus on something there but not seen. And I’ve always loved the interspersing of poems with text—it gathers things together into a fascinating, creative shape, text enhancing poems, the poems each other.” — Lawrence Myers, poet and fabulist;
— Donald Sidney-Fryer, California poet and literary
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