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A Treatise on Stars

By Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
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By Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
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A Treatise on Stars is a truly original set of poems that turns into a treatise on the human condition. Berssenbrugge takes us far out into the galaxy as if she were a physicist and then brings us home as a sprit guide. Her words float on the astral plane and yet remain grounded. That’s the line a poet walks—always between two worlds.

An ethereal new collection that is “visceral with intellection” (David Lau)

Winner of the Bollingen Prize

Finalist for the National Book Award

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Finalist for the PEN Open Book Award

Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Prize

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 a geography of interconnected, interdimensional intelligence th...

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