Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
I Love Artists
New and Selected Poems
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154 pages, 8 x 8 inches,
April 2006, Available worldwide
April 2006, Available worldwide
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 with states of indetermination, contingency, and flux.
"Essentially these poems are demanding. They demand that the reader give up preconceptions and enter their construct. What they return is a poetic view that is more than thinking outside the box but in a universe where there is not box—but language, reflection, and ultimately beauty instead."—Santa Fe New Mexican
"A worthy introduction to her [Berssenbrugge's] elegant oeuvre."—Publishers Weekly
"A worthy introduction to her [Berssenbrugge's] elegant oeuvre."—Publishers Weekly
PERPETUAL MOTION
1.
You go to the mountains
stretch in the light aquariums
and wait—
stillness turns in its well
2.
I touch your face
of rosewood and sap
the last vanished yellow
of sunset on the mountain
the first cellular light of a flank
3.
Walking up the mountain
before an avalanche
you'll find the sandstone
of the peak tattooed with waves
The summit moves with the tide.
1.
You go to the mountains
stretch in the light aquariums
and wait—
stillness turns in its well
2.
I touch your face
of rosewood and sap
the last vanished yellow
of sunset on the mountain
the first cellular light of a flank
3.
Walking up the mountain
before an avalanche
you'll find the sandstone
of the peak tattooed with waves
The summit moves with the tide.
From Summits Move with the Tide
From Random Possession
From The Heat Bird
From Empathy
From Sphericity
From Endocrinology
From Four Year Old Girl
From Nest
New Poems
Acknowledgements
From Random Possession
From The Heat Bird
From Empathy
From Sphericity
From Endocrinology
From Four Year Old Girl
From Nest
New Poems
Acknowledgements
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