A treatise on stars
(Book)
Published
New York : New Directions Books, 2020.
Format
Book
ISBN
9780811229388, 0811229386
Physical Desc
101 pages ; 20 x 22 cm
Status
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Cranston Central - Adult Non-Fiction | 811 .54 BER | On Shelf |
Pawtucket - Adult Non-Fiction | PS 3552 E77 T74 2020 | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : New Directions Books, 2020.
Language
English
ISBN
9780811229388, 0811229386
Notes
General Note
"A New Directions book."
Description
"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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Berssenbrugge, M. (2020). A treatise on stars . New Directions Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei, 1947-. 2020. A Treatise On Stars. New Directions Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei, 1947-. A Treatise On Stars New Directions Books, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei. A Treatise On Stars New Directions Books, 2020.
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