The Library of Congress, Copyright Office’s “Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series: 1968” redacted into a “poem.” Graphics from the “Lunar Module, LM10 through LM14, Vehicle Familiarization Manual” created in 1969 by Grumman.
Mary Proctor’s 1911 “Half-hours with the summer stars” redacted into a poem. The graphic elements are fragments from the 1771 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, Plate XLII.
A page of “The Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman, Volume I” (1902) redacted into a poem about the universe. The drop cap “U” is from J. Wesley Van Dervoort’s “The Water World” (1883).
American astronomer Henrietta S. Leavitt (one of Pickering’s “computers”) provided readers a walking tour of the Harvard Observatory grounds in a 1896 book “Cambridge Sketches.” I have redacted her tour into general poem about the wonders of viewing.
Text borrowed from the 1728 “A Trip to the Moon” by Murtagh McDermot (pseudonym) to create a poem. The background is a closeup from an original NASA-LRC Lunar Orbiter II poster I purchased at an observatory yard sale.
“The Literary Gazette: A Weekly Journal of Literature, Arts, and Sciences,” Volume 13 (1829) redacted into a poem. Stars are taken from a photo of the globular star cluster Messier 107. Photo credit: ESA/NASA.
A page of Nathanial Hawthorne’s short story “Wakefield” borrowed for a poem. Text from “The Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne,” published in 1900. The poem is “seen” through the windows of the cuppola of the International Space Station. (Image credit: NASA)