rcmulhare's review
5.0
I read this poetry collection when I'd hit a low spot, and it's no exaggeration that it helped me work my way back up from it. These poems might read simple and sentimental, but they clearly come from the heart of the poet, himself a NASA engineer. That might seem a strange combination, science and poetry, though when one thinks about it, science shares the same sense of wonder that writing poetry offers, only in a different form and from a different approach to the things that inspire our wonder. Probably my favorite poem is "The Greatest Adventure", the longest poem in the book, dealing with the awe and excitement surrounding the author's involvement in the Moon Landing, and I loved the way the four seasonal poems in another section seem to flow into each other, much as Earth's seasons transition one into another. I'm even reading some of the poems aloud to my mum, I've enjoyed this book so much!
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