“After the meal, Borman dropped me off at my hotel, then went to visit his wife at the nursing home where she lives. As he drove away, it seemed to me strange”
“Grass Fires"No ease for the boy at his keyhole,his telescope,when the women's white bodies flashedin the bathroom. Young, my eyes began to fail.In the grandiloquent lettering on Mother's coffinLowell had been misspelled LOVELThe corpsewas wrapped like panetone in Italian tinfoilFather's death was abrupt and unprotesting.His vision was still twenty-twenty.After a morning of anxious, repetitive smiling,his last words to Mother were:"I feel awful."He smiled his oval Lowell smile....It has taken me the time since you diedto discover you are as human as I am...If I am.””
“Early on December 25, Houston time, Lovell missed a step. He meant to enter Program 23 and then select Star 01. Instead, he entered Program 01 into his computer. An alarm rang out. Suddenly, Apollo 8’s guidance system reset itself, losing all memory of how the ship was oriented in space. As a result of Lovell’s mistake, the guidance system now believed Apollo 8 to be back on the launchpad at Cape Kennedy.””
Robert Lovell was an English poet whose work emerged during a time of significant social and economic change in late 18th-century Britain. He is best known for his poem, *Bristol: A Satire*, which pro...