A treatise on stars / Mei-mei Berssenbrugge.
| Author/creator | Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei, 1947- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : New Directions Books, 2020. |
| Copyright Date | ©2020 |
| Description | 101 pages ; 20 x 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | New Directions Paperbook ; NDP1469 New Directions paperbook ; 1469. ^A717302 |
| Contents | I. Star Beings -- Consciousness Self-Learns -- Scalar -- The Loom -- Jaguar -- The Pleiades -- Pegasus -- You Are Here -- II. Listening -- Lux -- Darkness -- Wonder -- Heart -- Singing -- New Boys 2 -- Chaco and Olivia. |
| Abstract | "Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's A Treatise on Stars extends the intensely phenomenological poetics of 'The Star Field' in Empathy, which appeared over thirty years ago. The book is structured as a continuous enfolding of poems, each made up of numbered serial parts, their presiding poetic consciousness moving from the desert arroyo of New Mexico to the white-tailed deer of Maine and between conversations with daughter, husband, friends, pets (corn snake and poodle), and a woman, or star-visitor, beneath a tree who calls 'any spirit in matter ... star-walking.' These are poems of deep listening and patient waiting, open to the channeling of daily experience, to gestalt and angel, dolphins and extraterrestrials. Here, family is a type of constellation and 'thought is a form of organized light.' All our senses are activated by Berssenbrugge's light absorbing lines, lines that map a geography of interconnected intelligence-interdimensional intelligence-that exists in all sentient objects and sustains us. This is not new age poetry but poetry for a new age, rigorous of thought and grounded in the physical world where 'days fill with splendor, and earth offers its pristine beauty to an expanding present.'"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "A New Directions book." |
| Awards note | Finalist for National Book Award for Poetry, 2020. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei, 1947- Treatise on stars |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| LCCN | 2019047008 |
| ISBN | 9780811229388 paperback ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0811229386 paperback ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Standard identifier# | 16246110 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS3552 .E77 T74 2020 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |