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I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems
Drawing on four decades of work and including new poems published here for the first time, this selection of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's poetry displays the extraordinary luminosity characteristic of her style--its delicate, meticulous observation, great scenic imagination, and unusual degree of comfort... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
A Treatise on Stars
An ethereal new collection that is “visceral with intellection” (David Lau) 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, eac... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Empathy
The groundbreaking poetic work by our “Mondrian in verse” (Susan Barba, Boston Review), now back in print in a newly revised edition with a new preface by the author Empathy, first published by Station Hill Press in 1989, marked a turning point in Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s poetry, her lines lengtheni... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
A Cabinet of Curiosity (Conjunctions #71)
by Peter Straub • Diane Ackerman • Howard Norman • John Edgar Wideman • Rick Moody • Bradford Morrow • Joanna Scott • Dinaw Mengestu • Robert Kelly • Karen Russell • David Shields • Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge • Peter Gizzi • Norman Manea • Brian Evenson • Ann Lauterbach • Martine Bellen • Mary CaponegroJoyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Diane Ackerman, and more explore the double-edged sword of curiosity . . . Curiosity is as central to life as breathing. And like breath itself, when it ceases, the vibrancy of life fades and disappears. Curiosity leads to discoveries both beneficent and, at times, de... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Nocturnals (Conjunctions #72)
by Peter Straub • Diane Ackerman • Quincy Troupe • Rick Moody • Joanna Scott • Dinaw Mengestu • Robert Kelly • Karen Russell • David Shields • Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge • Peter Gizzi • Norman Manea • Brian Evenson • Ann Lauterbach • Fred Moten • Martine Bellen • Mary CaponegroThis spring 2019 edition of Bard College’s literary journal explores the fascination and mystery of night through stories, poems, essays, and memoirs. Scheherazade famously spun stories for a thousand and one nights in order to sustain her life. In recognition of how vital it is to voice our own sto... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue (Conjunctions #70)
by Peter Straub • Diane Ackerman • Howard Norman • John Edgar Wideman • Rick Moody • Bradford Morrow • Joanna Scott • Dinaw Mengestu • Robert Kelly • Karen Russell • David Shields • Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge • Peter Gizzi • Brian Evenson • Ann Lauterbach • Martine Bellen • Mary CaponegroExploring the myriad ways in which we go about preserving what might otherwise be forfeited. Whether trained specialists or lay people who care about something, preservationists come from every stratum of life. The archivist, the linguist, the local town historian. The paleontologist, the heirloom... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Other Aliens (Conjunctions #67)
by Peter Straub • Howard Norman • John Edgar Wideman • Elizabeth Hand • Rick Moody • Bradford Morrow • Joanna Scott • John Ashbery • Robert Kelly • William H. Gass • Karen Russell • David Shields • Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge • Peter Gizzi • Norman Manea • Brian Evenson • Ann Lauterbach • Martine Bellen • Mary CaponegroNew writings on our fear of—and fascination with—the “other” from Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Kelly Link, Jeffrey Ford, and more.Alien is a powerful and flexible word. Aliens are “other.” Aliens are the stuff of science fiction and fantasy. Aliens are traditional literary figures that cause us ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016