Book Chat With Pat | ROCKET SUMMER: Life on Mars by Tracy K Smith @BookChatWithPat8668 | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 20 minutes ago.
ROCKET SUMMER is a new summer reading event, created by @michaelk.vaughan8617 in which we are reading CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION for the month of July. At the suggestion of one of my subscribers, I am sharing in this video a brief discussion of the former US Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith, and her Pulitzer Prize-winning volume, LIFE ON MARS. This is a book of poetry that she wrote largely as an elegy for her father, Floyd William Smith, an engineer who helped to develop the Hubble Space Telescope. So today, I am combining Rocket Summer and Poetry Thursday with this discussion of Smith and a reading from her collection.
The month is focused in the following way:
Week 1: The Beginnings of SF in the 19th Century through 1939
Week 2: SF from 1940 through 1949
Week 3: SF from 1950 through 1959
Week 4: SF from 1960 through 1969
Co-Hosts of Rocket Summer:
@michaelk.vaughan8617
@GrammaticusBooks
@bookssongsandothermagic
@GenreBooks23
@anotherbibliophilereads
@MysteryandMayhem
@BookTimewithElvis
RandyRay@LiterateTexan
@TheBookclectic
@ShawnDStandfast
@saintdonoghue
@BookChatWithPat8668
Sources:
Aggerwall-Schifelleite. "Naming the Things You Feel." THE HARVARD GAZETTE. Sept. 23, 2021.
Brouwer, Joel. "Poems of Childhood, Grief, and Deep Space." THE NEW YORK TIMES. Aug. 26, 2011.
Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey. New American Library. 1968.
"Life on Mars," by Tracy K. Smith. The Pulitzer Prizes. www.pulitzer.org.winners.tracy-k-smith.
Smith, Tracy K. LIFE ON MARS. Graywolf Press, 2011.
Wall, Mike. "'Life on Mars': Q & A with Pulitzer-Winning Poet Tracy K. Smith. Space.com. May 4, 2012
Events Mentioned:
Rocket Summer 2024
Special thanks to @patriciah8579
#rocketsummer #sf #scifi #sciencefiction #booktube #reading #poetry #poetrythursday #pulitzerprize
ROCKET SUMMER is a new summer reading event, created by @michaelk.vaughan8617 in which we are reading CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION for the month of July. At the suggestion of one of my subscribers, I am sharing in this video a brief discussion of the former US Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith, and her Pulitzer Prize-winning volume, LIFE ON MARS. This is a book of poetry that she wrote largely as an elegy for her father, Floyd William Smith, an engineer who helped to develop the Hubble Space Telescope. So today, I am combining Rocket Summer and Poetry Thursday with this discussion of Smith and a reading from her collection.
The month is focused in the following way:
Week 1: The Beginnings of SF in the 19th Century through 1939
Week 2: SF from 1940 through 1949
Week 3: SF from 1950 through 1959
Week 4: SF from 1960 through 1969
Co-Hosts of Rocket Summer:
@michaelk.vaughan8617
@GrammaticusBooks
@bookssongsandothermagic
@GenreBooks23
@anotherbibliophilereads
@MysteryandMayhem
@BookTimewithElvis
RandyRay@LiterateTexan
@TheBookclectic
@ShawnDStandfast
@saintdonoghue
@BookChatWithPat8668
Sources:
Aggerwall-Schifelleite. "Naming the Things You Feel." THE HARVARD GAZETTE. Sept. 23, 2021.
Brouwer, Joel. "Poems of Childhood, Grief, and Deep Space." THE NEW YORK TIMES. Aug. 26, 2011.
Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey. New American Library. 1968.
"Life on Mars," by Tracy K. Smith. The Pulitzer Prizes. www.pulitzer.org.winners.tracy-k-smith.
Smith, Tracy K. LIFE ON MARS. Graywolf Press, 2011.
Wall, Mike. "'Life on Mars': Q & A with Pulitzer-Winning Poet Tracy K. Smith. Space.com. May 4, 2012
Events Mentioned:
Rocket Summer 2024
Special thanks to @patriciah8579
#rocketsummer #sf #scifi #sciencefiction #booktube #reading #poetry #poetrythursday #pulitzerprize
