Butterfly Nebula
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3610-4 (ISBN)
Gold Medal in Poetry for the 2024 Illumination Book Awards
Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Butterfly Nebula reaches from the depths of the sea to the edges of space to chart intersections of the physical universe, the divine, the human, and the constantly unfolding experience of being “one thing in the act of becoming another.” This collection of poems teems with creatures and cosmic phenomena that vivify and reveal our common struggle toward faith and identity. The longing and metamorphosis of the human heart and soul are reimagined in an otherworldly landscape of firework jellyfish, sea slug, stingray, praying mantis, butterfly and moth, moon and star, and celestial events ranging from dark matter and Kepler’s Supernova remnant to a dozen classified nebulae. Our desire for purpose and renewal collides with the vast constellation of divine possibility in this collection, which invites the reader to enter a transformative world both deeply interior and embracing of the far-flung cosmos.
Laura Reece Hogan is the author of I Live, No Longer I, O Garden-Dweller, and Litany of Flights.
I. Hydra
In Which I Pray for Stars
Longing as Dark Matter
Heart as Siphonophore
Heart Nebula
HR 6819 and the Lovesick Be Star
Eye as Firework Jellyfish
Psyche as Vampire Squid
The Dark Rift
Oyster Nebula
Sea Butterfly
Question Mark Butterfly
Trembling Aspen: Needle
Fireball
Your Never and Always Ring of Fire
Via Negativa: New Moon
II. Microscopium
Butterfly Nebula
Prayer for Traversing the Eye
The Elysia Sea Slug
Soul Nebula
Leafy Sea Dragon
Playing with Tiger Sharks on the Missile Range
Manatee Nebula
Crab Nebula
Lyrebird
Letter
Soul as Half Moon
Universal Law of Turbulence
On Finding the Atom Is Divisible
Petri Dish
The Most Tiny Quantity of Reality Ever Imagined
Moon Rust
III. Crux
Coalsack Nebula
The Blue Hour
Bow in the Clouds
A Small Good Friday Service at Notre Dame Cathedral
Holy Saturday
St. Teresa’s Pillow
Mary, Wife of Clopas
Ghost Nebula
On Neptune It Rains Diamonds
Geminids
Ribbons
Super Supernova
Trembling Aspen: Twine
Exchange
Cocoon
IV. Telescopium
Petition as Praying Mantis
Morpho Butterfly
Gedankenexperiment
Fear as Absent Mountain Lion
Hope as Alpha Centauri AB
The Mother Gives Us
Ophelia in Los Angeles
Comet NEOWISE, July 4th
Iris Nebula
Comma Butterfly
Sign of the Times
Terror Weather
Approaching the Event Horizon
Resilience as Daffodil
Between 50 and 51
Via Negativa: Corpse Flower
V. Phoenix
Fast Radio Bursts Detected Close to Earth
We Are All God’s Poems
Lazarus Rising
Phoenix at Padre Serra Church
Kepler’s Supernova Remnant
Eagle Nebula
Strawberry Supermoon
Hours
Heart as Honeycomb
Trembling Aspen: Stitch
Stingray Nebula
Keyhole Nebula
Kilonova as Composition
Persephone at the Turn
Blue Moon Butterfly
Acknowledgments
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.08.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Backwaters Prize in Poetry |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-3610-6 / 1496236106 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-3610-4 / 9781496236104 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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