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- Heliopause
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry Program
summary
Heather Christle's stunning fourth collection blends disarming honesty with keen leaps of the imagination. Like the boundary between our sun's sphere of influence and interstellar space, from which the book takes its name, the poems in Heliopause locate themselves along the border of the known and unknown, moving with breathtaking assurance from the page to the beyond. Christle finds striking parallels between subjects as varied as the fate of Voyager 1, the uncertain conception of new life, the nature of elegy, and the decaying transmission of information across time. Nimbly engaging with current events and lyric past, Heliopause marks a bold shift and growing vision in Christle's work. An online reader's companion will be available.
Table of Contents
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- A Perfect Catastrophe
- pp. 14-15
- Disintegration Loop 1.1
- pp. 16-33
- Vernon Street
- pp. 34-35
- Realistic Flowers
- p. 38
- It’s an Empire Out There
- pp. 40-41
- Elegy for Neil Armstrong
- pp. 42-51
- And This Too Comes Apart
- pp. 52-53
- Nature Poem
- pp. 58-59
- As If No Light Could Warm You
- pp. 64-65
- How Long Is the Heliopause
- pp. 66-73
- In the Dumps
- p. 75
- Aesthetics of Crying
- p. 77
- Keep in Shape
- p. 78
- Poem for Bill Cassidy
- pp. 100-105
- Notes and Acknowledgments
- pp. 106-111
Additional Information
ISBN
9780819575302
Related ISBN(s)
9780819575296
MARC Record
OCLC
899157503
Pages
112
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-31
Language
English
Open Access
No