Auguries & Divinations
Auguries & Divinations
Auguries & Divinations
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Description
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Auguries & Divinations tracks a young woman's coming-of-age, attuned to the unspoken rules (and liabilities) of women's lives, the suburban underworld, and the energies of eros. An older woman, Lucie, becomes the narrator's Beatrice in love and survival, and she returns to New England seasoned and ready to claim a life of her own making, drawing on her study of the love lyric--from Catullus to Frank Bidart--and the classical practice of augury, or observing the birds to discern human fate.
Brad Crenshaw, in choosing the book for the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, notes: "Heather Treseler is compelling. We immediately want to listen to her the way we might listen to a lyric singer full of melody and rhythm... But make no mistake, running through all her lyricism is a staring, unblinking intelligence that informs us about what she sees. Her vision is inclusive, generous, wide-ranging, and enthralling."
Brad Crenshaw, in choosing the book for the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, notes: "Heather Treseler is compelling. We immediately want to listen to her the way we might listen to a lyric singer full of melody and rhythm... But make no mistake, running through all her lyricism is a staring, unblinking intelligence that informs us about what she sees. Her vision is inclusive, generous, wide-ranging, and enthralling."
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"A molten heat flames at the center of Heather Treseler's new poetry collection... She writes of what it is to emerge into a world, and then try to escape it for another one, and the violence and release involved with the efforts."-- "The Boston Globe"
"Treseler delights in imaginative recasting: of the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Frank Bidart, and Gertrude Stein; of the personae of Anne Sexton and Sophia Hawthorne; and of paintings by George Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and William Merritt Chase."-- "Poetry Foundation"
"There had been plenty of signs and indications -- auguries, so to speak -- over the past few years that such achievement and recognition was coming Treseler's way as a poet."-- "Worcester Magazine"
"Treseler's book contemplates love and womanhood, childlessness, and the transitory home that eros makes of flesh, building a rainy habitation from the rooms of her stanzas..."-- "Lit Hub"
"Heather Treseler's debut collection of poems, Auguries & Divinations, recipient of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize [...] which is just one achievement of Heather Treseler's remarkable personal and poetic sojourn in Auguries & Divinations."-- "On The Seawall: A Book Reviewery"
"Dear Reader, I urge you to read Auguries & Divinations. Experience not only a fine debut collection, but a textured and accomplished book that claims its place in the masterful canon of modern poetry."-- "Solstice Literary Magazine"
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Bauhan Pub
Pub date:
2024-04-09
Length:
120 pages
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