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Aphelion
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Poetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
Publisher: Mea Observatory Press
Published: Nov 30 2025
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Poetry. Astrophotography. A journey through grief, distance, and the light that endures.
Aphelion is a luminous fusion of poetry and deep-sky astrophotography-an exploration of what it means to lose, to endure, and to keep moving through the farthest distances of the human heart.
Retired engineer and astronomer Daniel Stern turns his telescopes outward and his language inward, pairing breathtaking images of nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters with poems that confront the quiet aftermath of grief, the weight of memory, and the surprising resilience found in wonder.
From the opening meditation on loss to the closing ember of renewal, Aphelion traces the long orbit between presence and absence, fatherhood and sonship, silence and expression. Each poem stands beside an astrophotograph not as illustration, but as conversation-light answering shadow, and shadow revealing what light cannot touch.
Themes of love, generational inheritance, creation, hunger, faith, and forgiveness orbit through four sections-The Cost of Creation, The Quiet Orbit, Hunger's Silence, and Lanterns of Infinity-culminating in a moving coda on what we pass forward.
For readers of Mary Oliver, Ocean Vuong, Tracy K. Smith, and anyone who looks upward for meaning, Aphelion offers a rare blend of scientific awe and emotional clarity:
a book about the distances that shape us-and the light we continue to carry across them.
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