unknown shore

“The Literary Gazette: A Weekly Journal of Literature, Arts, and Sciences,” Volume 13 (1829) redacted into a poem.

The Celestial Worlds Discovered: Redacted Poem

Christiaan Huygens’ “The Celestial Worlds Discovered” redacted into a poem. (I used the 2nd edition, published 1722.)

Micrographia: Redacted poem

Robert Hooke’s 1665 “Micrographia” redacted into a poem about the Feb. 15, 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor. (For the redaction, I used “Extracts from Micrographia,” a 1906 reprint for ease of reading.)

Hope hov’rest near

Bits of Henry Ingram’s 1815 poem “The Flower of Wye” borrowed to create a poem about the International Space Station. The initial cap “H” is part of an ISS image (photo credit: Peter Stetson and John Stetson).
The background text is a 2004 Congressional Budget Office budgetary analysis of NASA’s future space vision.

My heart-blood grown fast: a valentine

Entry for “galaxy” and collocated entries in Samuel Johnson’s 1805 “A Dictionary of the English Language” (Vol. II) redacted into a valentine.

Wanderlust #2

This April 4, 1968 picture of the unmanned Apollo 6 mission launch was taken from a chase plane. (Image credit: NASA.) The poem text comes from a 1909 poem in “The Public” called “Wanderlust.” Phrases from other collocated articles were added in.

Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences: Redacted Poem

A page of Galileo’s “Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences” redacted into a poem. (I used Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio’s 1914 translation for this effort.) The frame is a star field in Cepheus captured by the Dawn mission. Image credit: NASA/JPL /MPS/DLR/IDA

leave a man

AXE’s “Leave a Man. Come Back a Hero.” space academy campaign reworked through a redacted poem. The text is from “A Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic” by Sir John Barrow (1818). Picture is Kathryn Sullivan from July 1, 1979 after setting unofficial altitude record for an American woman (63,300 ft). The purple outline was created with eyeliner.

starved star

Alfred Tennyson’s “By An Evolutionist” (1889) and Robert Browning’s “Epilogue” (1889) redacted into a poem about dying stars.

Dirge comes silent

A redacted poem remembering the crew of Columbia, lost February 1, 2003. The poem borrows words from George Henry Boker’s “Dirge for a Soldier” (1862) and Christina Rossetti’s “Up-Hill” (1862).