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The Larger Earth

David Memmott

First published 1996
Publisher Permeable Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Collection
Cover art Freddie Baer
Pages 102
Price $9.95
ISBN 1882633180

Collection of 22 linked SF poems.

Page Title Author(s) Type
9 While Playing on the Shore of the Holoflux the Grounded Astronaut Pops a Wave Function and Blissfully Brings a Poem into Being David Memmott Poem
13 The Grounded Astronaut Hides in the Maze of the Pentagon to Avoid Returning to Space David Memmott Poem
15 The Grounded Astronaut on the Edge of a Breakdown Lobbies Congress to Regulate the Exploitation of Foreign Bodies David Memmott Poem
19 The Grounded Astronaut Witnesses Another Speed Jockey Go Up in Flames David Memmott Poem
23 The Grounded Astronaut Considers a Few Fundamentals in His Role as Observer David Memmott Poem
27 The Grounded Astronaut Searches for the Godman Down by the Tracks Having Fallen Off His High Horse David Memmott Poem
31 The Grounded Astronaut Interrupts This Program for a Word About Your Sponsor David Memmott Poem
34 The Grounded Astronaut on a Pilgrimage to Mecca Looks for New Rituals Among the Ruins to Help Recover a Lost Generation David Memmott Poem
37 The Grounded Astronaut Forgoes His Pension for the Gift of Prophecy But Learns Time Does Not Flow in One Direction David Memmott Poem
40 The Grounded Astronaut Dances with His Dead Father Beside Black Waters David Memmott Poem
45 The Grounded Astronaut Does Battle with the Lord of Smoke and Mirrors While the Children Believe What They Read and Become What They Eat David Memmott Poem
51 The Grounded Astronaut, Betrayed by His Own Words, Searches for Ghosts Among the Holograms but Can Only Find the Juggler of Living Birds David Memmott Poem
55 The Grounded Astronaut Records the Birth and Death of a Flyboy in the Rarefied Air Over Hollywood David Memmott Poem
59 The Grounded Astronaut, Living in the Endzone, Grieves the Loss of Mystery David Memmott Poem
65 The Grounded Astronaut Accidentally Releases the Earth Goddess from the Meat Locker Where She Was Locked In by Logical Empiricists to Tame Unruly Passions David Memmott Poem
71 The Grounded Astronaut Struggles to Be Reborn in the Widows' Watch After Touching the Face of Death David Memmott Poem
75 The Mistress of Speed Beckons the Grounded Astronaut and the Blacked-Out Pilot to Fly with Her from the Hospital Room After Their Last Breakdown David Memmott Poem
79 The Grounded Astronaut Chimes in the Works as the Mainspring Unwinds David Memmott Poem
83 The Grounded Astronaut, Weeping in His Beer, Encounters the Mistress of Mercy but Has Forgotten Her Name David Memmott Poem
88 The Grounded Astronaut, Thinking of His Comrades, Follows the White Rabbit into the Dark Interior and Finds the Lost Boy Still Brooding After All These Years David Memmott Poem
94 The Grounded Astronaut Explores Moving Boundaries on the Oregon Coast After a Mechanical Failure Caused a Rapid Descent David Memmott Poem
100 The Grounded Astronaut Declines an Invitation from the Ex-President to Participate in a Mission to Mars and Searches for the Swan of Light Beneath the Ruins of a Bombed Out Cathedral David Memmott Poem