The Universe in Verse: Western Horizon (April 18, CA)
“We, this people on this mote of matter,” Maya Angelou wrote in her stunning poem “A Brave and Startling Truth” that flew to space aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft — a poem inspired by Carl Sagan, a poem in which she traces our traversal of space, “past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns,” to invite the elemental question: What are we, “this people,” and what is life itself, by measures both human and cosmic?
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