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From the formation of the solar system, 4.6 billion years ago, to the fate of the Sun as a fading white dwarf, six billion years from today, Earth: A Narrative in Verse recounts the epic of Earth's evolution in 44 cantos that document the struggle of irrepressible Life with inevitable Death. Astronomy, geology and biology are melded in poems that employ and celebrate the sounds and symbols of science to describe the formation of planets, tectonic motions, climate change, catastrophic happenings, and the odyssey of terrestrial Life from single cells to complex organisms and finally back to single cells, the last earthlings. Sobering yet uplifting, the work presents Earth in the context of universal time and space.
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John Dickey has enjoyed Earth and planetary science and poetry since his youth. His career as a scientist extended from vertebrate paleontology in the badlands of Wyoming to the petrology of the Moon. He has explored Earth in the laboratory, in the field, and at sea, studied rocks from every continent, and personally worked on all but Asia, Australia and the Antarctic. He has been a mining geologist, research scientist, university professor, National Science Foundation program director, academic dean and Director of Outreach and Research Support of the American Geophysical Union. In addition to numerous scientific and academic policy publications, Dr. Dickey is author of On The Rocks, a book about Earth and planetary sciences and scientists for the general public.
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