WILD HUNT OF THE STARS by Ann K. Schwader, Cedar Rapids IA; 2010, Sam's Dot, pb, $6.00, ISBN 978-0-9816365-0-4
Ann Schwader is one of the pillars of the hard sf poetry community. Many though not all the poems in the collection are about the sher and unbridled romance that is space travel. Not all her poems are cherry and optimistic. A fair number of the poems have a dark and nihilistic edge. Still I think this paragraph from the poem 'What Mars Need' represents both the heart of this collection and her life's work as a poet.
'What Mars needs are pyramids
rising from red plains
drifted with history,asteroid dust,
& a few cryptic fragments
of hope'
This is a must buy poetry collection.
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