Imagems 3
"These lyrical meditations celebrate poetry as the form of language best fitted to bringing us more deeply and vividly into reality in its many psychic, natural, social, cultural, and spiritual dimensions. Through the beauty, precision, and generosity of their language, the meditations - prose poems themselves - not only pronounce this power but evoke and induct it."

-RODERICK MAIN, University of Essex

"Here, Richard Berengarten continues to advocate a numinous poetics, expressed in a language filtered through trees, whose oxygen we breathe. This is a poetics conceived in darkness, growing and spreading inexorably into light. For Berengarten, poetry begins and ends, and begins again, in an inherently shared present, spanning generations, where "all that's needed is breath."

-KATIE LEHMAN, author of Emily Dickinson's Lexicon

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Imagems 3
"These lyrical meditations celebrate poetry as the form of language best fitted to bringing us more deeply and vividly into reality in its many psychic, natural, social, cultural, and spiritual dimensions. Through the beauty, precision, and generosity of their language, the meditations - prose poems themselves - not only pronounce this power but evoke and induct it."

-RODERICK MAIN, University of Essex

"Here, Richard Berengarten continues to advocate a numinous poetics, expressed in a language filtered through trees, whose oxygen we breathe. This is a poetics conceived in darkness, growing and spreading inexorably into light. For Berengarten, poetry begins and ends, and begins again, in an inherently shared present, spanning generations, where "all that's needed is breath."

-KATIE LEHMAN, author of Emily Dickinson's Lexicon

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Imagems 3

Imagems 3

by Richard Berengarten
Imagems 3

Imagems 3

by Richard Berengarten

Overview

"These lyrical meditations celebrate poetry as the form of language best fitted to bringing us more deeply and vividly into reality in its many psychic, natural, social, cultural, and spiritual dimensions. Through the beauty, precision, and generosity of their language, the meditations - prose poems themselves - not only pronounce this power but evoke and induct it."

-RODERICK MAIN, University of Essex

"Here, Richard Berengarten continues to advocate a numinous poetics, expressed in a language filtered through trees, whose oxygen we breathe. This is a poetics conceived in darkness, growing and spreading inexorably into light. For Berengarten, poetry begins and ends, and begins again, in an inherently shared present, spanning generations, where "all that's needed is breath."

-KATIE LEHMAN, author of Emily Dickinson's Lexicon

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781848619074
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Publication date: 07/11/2025
Pages: 32
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.08(d)

About the Author

Richard Berengarten was born in London in 1943, into a family of musicians. He has lived in Italy, Greece, the USA and former Yugoslavia. His writing integrates multiple strands, including English, French, Mediterranean, Jewish, Slavic, American and Asian influences. Under the name Richard Burns, he has published more than 25 books. In the 1970s, he founded and ran the international Cambridge Poetry Festival. In the UK he has received the Eric Gregory Award, the Wingate-Jewish Quarterly Award for Poetry, the Keats Poetry Prize, and the Yeats Club Prize. In Serbia, he has received the international Morava Charter Poetry Prize and the Great Lesson Award, and in Macedonia (FYR), the Manada Prize. He has been Writer-in-Residence at the international Eliot-Dante Colloquium in Florence, Arts Council Writer-in-Residence at the Victoria Centre in Gravesend, Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge, and a Royal Literary Fund Project Fellow. He has been Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame and British Council Lecturer in Belgrade. He is currently a Fellow of the English Association, a Bye-Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge and an Academic Associate at Pembroke College, Cambridge. His poems have been translated into more than 90 languages.
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