There's something incredibly moving, and electrifying, to read a poem from the Chinese Book of Odes, written around 500 B.C, and to feel both our distance from and our closeness to the past, and the moon itself:
I climbed the hill just as the new moon showed,
I saw him coming on the southern road.
My heart lays down its load.
In collecting together poems such as these - poems that span continents and centuries - To The Moon shows what it is to be human; to love, to lose, to dream and to hope. The poems it contains give us a real and profound sense of our time on this planet, and the pleasures they offer are - like space itself - infinite.
- ISBN10 0330515233
- ISBN13 9780330515238
- Publish Date 5 January 2012 (first published 2 October 2009)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Picador
- Format eBook
- Language English