Christopher Cokinos

an intimate history of shooting stars

The fallen sky

John M. Logsdon

Julie Swarstad Johnson

The Poetry of Spaceflight

Beyond Earth's Edge

Presents the histories of six extinct North American birds, how they were killed and who attempted to protect them, and discusses what can be learned from these losses to save today's endangered wildlife.

A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

Hope is the Thing with Feathers

Eric Magrane

Both literary anthology and hands-on field guide, The Sonoran Desert is a groundbreaking book that melds art and science. It captures the stunning biodiversity of the world's most verdant desert through words and images. More than fifty poets and writers--including Christopher Cokinos, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Ken Lamberton, Eric Magrane, Jane Miller, Gary Paul Nabhan, Alberto R�os, Ofelia Zepeda, and many others--have composed responses to key species of this striking desert. Each creative contribution is joined by an illustration by award-winning artist Paul Mirocha and scientific information about the creature or plant authored by the book's editors.

A Literary Field Guide

The Sonoran Desert

In this acclaimed volume, prizewinning poet and nature writer Christopher Cokinos takes us on an epic journey from Antarctica to outer space, weaving together natural history, memoir, and in-depth profiles of amateur researchers, rogue scientists, and stargazing dreamers to tell the riveting tale of how the study of meteorites became a modern science.

The Fallen Sky

Christopher Cokinos

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