Space Administration

by Ken Hunt

Space Administration plunders NASA’s voice transcription of the first day of the Apollo 11 moon mission, uncovering a book of conceptual poetry that reimagines the erasure process as “spacecraft” (which is to say, the “crafting of space”). The book envisions its writing process as a venture of space exploration. Readers encounter a void populated by columns of numerical time-codes and by constellations of words. These textual “star-charts” evoke the materiality of the page’s empty space.

146 pages, Paperback

First published February 11, 2014

About the author

Ken Hunt’s writing has appeared in Chromium Dioxide, No Press, Matrix, and Freefall. For three years, Ken served as Managing Editor of NōD Magazine, and for one year as Poetry Editor of filling Station. Ken holds an MA in English from Concordia University and is the founder of Spacecraft Press, an online publisher of experimental writing inspired by science and technology. The LUMA Foundation published his first book of poetry, Space Administration, in 2014. His second and third books of poetry, The Lost Cosmonauts and The Odyssey, were published by Book*hug Press in the fall of 2018 and the fall of 2019, respectively. Ken is a PhD candidate at the University of Western Ontario.

Reviews

[⏺ · Rating 4 out of 5]

see the white leak of seconds [ ] going grey as we try to turn off time [ ] the Moon is absent