Winner of the Bollingen Prize
Finalist for the National Book Award
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
A Treatise on Stars extends Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s intensely phenomenological poetics to the fiery bodies in a “field of heaven…outside spacetime.” Long, lyrical lines map the geography of interconnected, interdimensional intelligence that exists in all places and sentient beings. These are poems of deep listening and patient waiting, open to the cosmic loom, the channeling of daily experience and conversation, gestalt and angels, dolphins, and a star-visitor beneath a tree. Family, too, becomes a type of constellation, a thought “a form of organized light.” All of our senses are activated by Berssenbrugge’s radiant lines, giving us a poetry of keen perception grounded in the physical world, where “days fill with splendor, and the earth offers its pristine beauty to an expanding present.”
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Winner of the Bollingen Prize
Finalist for the National Book Award
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
A Treatise on Stars extends Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s intensely phenomenological poetics to the fiery bodies in a “field of heaven…outside spacetime.” Long, lyrical lines map the geography of interconnected, interdimensional intelligence that exists in all places and sentient beings. These are poems of deep listening and patient waiting, open to the cosmic loom, the channeling of daily experience and conversation, gestalt and angels, dolphins, and a star-visitor beneath a tree. Family, too, becomes a type of constellation, a thought “a form of organized light.” All of our senses are activated by Berssenbrugge’s radiant lines, giving us a poetry of keen perception grounded in the physical world, where “days fill with splendor, and the earth offers its pristine beauty to an expanding present.”
| ISBN | 9780811229388 |
|---|---|
| Length (cm) | 22.0000 |
| Width (cm) | 1.0000 |
| Height (cm) | 20.0000 |
| Publisher | New Directions |
| Publication Date | Feb 25, 2020 |
| Pages (number) | 96 |
| Genre | Classics and Poetry |
| Author | Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge |
| Signed | No |
| Format | Paperback |
| Editorial Reviews | N/A |