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Axis Denied

Axis Denied

Elster, Martin

Hardcover

General PoetryHistory & Philosophy of Science

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN13: 9798385293063
Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
Published: Sep 9 2026
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Axis Denied is a formally inventive collection of poems about the cosmos, science, technology, and the strange consequences of human longing in an immense universe. Martin Elster writes with a musician's ear for rhythm and rhyme, moving from auroras, galaxies, Mercury's sodium tail, and the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field to robots, alien cafes, black holes, starships, and speculative futures. These poems are playful, philosophical, comic, and haunting by turns. They ask how human beings find meaning on a nanoscopic dot, how science enlarges and unsettles the imagination, and how love, grief, absurdity, and wonder persist against the scale of space-time. In sonnets, villanelles, ballades, nonce forms, and other formal structures, Elster brings wit, musicality, and scientific curiosity to poems that range from celestial observation to science-fiction fable, from cosmic comedy to elegy for the Earth.

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