Chris Cokinos
Winner of a Whiting Award, Chris Cokinos is the author of two books from Tarcher/Penguin -- Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal History of Vanished Birds and Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars. He has received a National Science Foundation Grant and teaches in the MFA Program at Arizona State and the Institute of the Environment at ASU. He is currently researching the scientific evidence for extraterrestrial life.
Reading List
Letter to Lucretius
I went to the farthest brink, as you advised, to launch the spear you so often spoke of, and, Lucretius, I tell you that it hit hard against a boundary–precisely what we do not know–and spear after spear fell against …