| Description |
101 pages ; 20 x 22 cm. |
| Series |
New Directions Paperbook ; NDP1469 |
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New Directions paperbook ; 1469.
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| Note |
"A New Directions book." |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9780811229388 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0811229386 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780811229395 (electronic book) |
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