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Amanda Palmer Reads “Hubble Photographs: After Sappho” by Adrienne Rich, Animated

Amanda Palmer Reads “Hubble Photographs: After Sappho” by Adrienne Rich, Animated

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“…equations letting sight pierce through time into liberations, lacerations of light and dust…” “Mingle the starlight with your lives and you won’t be fretted by trifles,” the pioneering 19th-century astronomer Maria Mitchell, who paved the way for women in science, used to tell her Vassar students …

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