{"product_id":"a-treatise-on-stars-by-mei-mei-berssenbrugge-9780811229388","title":"A Treatise on Stars","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMei-mei Berssenbrugge's \u003cem\u003eA Treatise on Stars\u003c\/em\u003e extends the intensely phenomenological poetics of “The Star Field” in \u003cem\u003eEmpathy\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese 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 organised 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not new age poetry but poetry for a new age, rigorous of thought and grounded in the physical world where “days fill with splendour, and earth offers its pristine beauty to an expanding present.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460240392428,"sku":"9780811229388","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780811229388-a-treatise-on-stars.jpg?v=1774946145","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/a-treatise-on-stars-by-mei-mei-berssenbrugge-9780811229388","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}