Going to the Moon by Sally Ashton

Going to the Moon

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Going to the Moon

Duke University Press

Going to the Moon

by Sally Ashton

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In Going to the Moon, poet Sally Ashton explores what the Moon has meant to her, and humanity as well as what we all stand to lose in the light of imminent lunar exploitation.

In 2022, poet Sally Ashton learned that one of her poems would be included in a time capsule to be sent to the Moon via Astrobotic's 2024 Griffin/VIPER as part of the Lunar Codex project. For her, this event seemed like the high point in a life spent chasing the Moon, from a childhood inspired by the space race of the 1960s to an adulthood spent in contemplation and conversation with the sky. In Going to the Moon, Ashton marvels at the Moon's powerful influence since the dawn of humanity--how we have, in our own ways, gone to the Moon, and what we have found. Contemplating lunar settlement in the light of history, culture, the rise of the space industry, and geopolitical conflict, Ashton shares her sense of wonder at the simple beauty of our unchanged Moon and reveals what is at stake in our contemporary attempts to colonize it.
Book Details
Publisher:
Duke University Press
ISBN:
9781478033950
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
152
Authors:
Sally Ashton
Published Date:
2026-07-14
Language:
English
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About Sally Ashton

Sally Ashton is Lecturer Emerita of English at San José State University. She taught creative writing there for about a decade and served as the second Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County. She earned a BA in English at San José State in 2001 and an MFA in poetry and literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars in 2003, and edits DMQ Review. Her poetry collections include These Metallic Days, Her Name Is Juanita, Some Odd Afternoon, The Behaviour of Clocks and Listening to Mars. Going to the Moon (Duke University Press, 2026) is a book of essays rather than poems, written after one of her poems was chosen for the Lunar Codex time capsule.

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