Figuring

of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment. Betelgeuse

It was not his mother’s nature that made her ignorant, but the consequences of her social standing in a world that rendered its opportunities for intellectual illumination and self-actualization as fixed as the stars.

governed by eternal forces deaf to human words—fundamental

Denise Levertov—the only woman of the fifteen—would state that poetry’s highest task is “to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.” This

the inhabitants of Earth would have the insight and integrity to question their own conviction of centrality.