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Hello, the Roses

by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
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Hello, the Roses
Hello, the Roses

Luminous poetry for meditative, perception-hungry readers

This feels like poetry you drift through rather than simply read, full of silence, space, and startling awareness. If you love language that turns plants, weather, myth, and selfhood into one shimmering field, this collection can feel quietly transformative. Readers who enjoy contemplative, sensory writing will likely find themselves returning to it for its strange calm and deepening beauty.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Hello, the Roses

by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
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ISBN: 9780811220910
Authors: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Publisher: New Directions
Date of Publication: 2013-04-24
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Poetry
Related Topics: Mythology, Literature
Goodreads rating: 4.25
(rated by 235 readers)

Description

American poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge makes her New Directions debut with this breathtaking new collection. A poet of “epic perception” and “subtle music,” Mei-mei Berssenbrugge opens form into long, shimmering lines of profound emotional intensity and multivalent voices, splintered with space, silence, and desert light. Her new collection of poems, Hello, the Roses, is composed of three parts. The opening poems delve into an array of unities, of myth and landscape, fashion and culture, experience and forgetting, boys and ravens. The central poems explore an invisible world where plants, animals, and the self communicate and coexist. The final part contemplates the individual’s relationship to night, weather, and cosmological time as Berssenbrugge limns a karmic temporal continuum, a mandala of perception. Throughout are the roses, transforming slowly, almost imperceptibly, deepening awareness, creating a rosette of civilization — a wild rose, a Delphic rose, imagined roses, white cabbage roses, an Apache rose, a Bourbon rose, our sacred mortality “saturated with being” in pink petals and gray-green leaves. Hello, the Roses is poetry enraptured with the phenomenal fullness of the world.
 

Luminous poetry for meditative, perception-hungry readers

This feels like poetry you drift through rather than simply read, full of silence, space, and startling awareness. If you love language that turns plants, weather, myth, and selfhood into one shimmering field, this collection can feel quietly transformative. Readers who enjoy contemplative, sensory writing will likely find themselves returning to it for its strange calm and deepening beauty.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.