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"This uncommon masterpiece of astropoetics was written by an author whose name has been swallowed by history and was likely, per the era’s newspaper conventions, never printed in the first place. But after plunging into a rabbit hole of research for several days, I have emerged with sufficient evidence that the writer was a woman named Emma Converse (1820–1893), whose columns were among the first popular articles on astronomy to appear in any daily paper. A century before Carl Sagan, Converse pioneered the art of astropoetics, enchanting masses of ordinary people with the extraordinary splendor and mystery of the cosmos."