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sh_ng's review
5.0
i think a lot about how to communicate ideas (political and scientific and other) concisely, clearly, effectively..... this made me think about that, and how to transmit information, and how we use jargon, and collective cultural knowledge that we associate with words and concepts, and "emotional affect" or whatever.
jayisreading's review
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
I didn’t particularly love this collection, but I think it’s because I wasn’t the intended audience. For those who are really into more spiritual poetry, this is absolutely for you. The poems themselves aren’t terribly lyrical or carry a particular narrative, which might be why this collection didn’t work for me, but it’s clear Berssenbrugge wanted the reader to reflect on her ideas of spirituality and the world around us.
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal death
caterpillarnotebooks's review
5.0
this book was about communing with dolphins & starlight i ate it up
sam8834's review
4.0
You can rise to a level of not knowing that's untouched by entropy.
Out of uncertainty, openness: order is maintained.
You rise to a realization beyond decay.
There's a deeper intelligence than that."
Berssenbrugge is a favorite of mine, and this collection is a cohesion of science, magic, philosophy, and nature. Her lines are designed to enact the reader's senses and open their mind. While the poems are long and not terribly narrative or lyrical, they're thought-provoking in a pleasing way, especially if you're a creative type. Read these, let them push you to a thinking that is somehow both large and intimate.
Out of uncertainty, openness: order is maintained.
You rise to a realization beyond decay.
There's a deeper intelligence than that."
Berssenbrugge is a favorite of mine, and this collection is a cohesion of science, magic, philosophy, and nature. Her lines are designed to enact the reader's senses and open their mind. While the poems are long and not terribly narrative or lyrical, they're thought-provoking in a pleasing way, especially if you're a creative type. Read these, let them push you to a thinking that is somehow both large and intimate.
shellroch285's review
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
3.75
I didn’t really understand a lot of it, but I admired this collection’s spirituality and hope to find more of myself in it as time goes on.
leonardo_munoz's review
2.0
Es interesante como del entramado epistemológico va desarrollando su poesía, pero el protagonismo de lo hippie (extraterrestres, divinidades, interconectividad emotiva, universo con capacidad de emoción, nada demasiado profundo o nuevo siquiera para poder fijar mi atención) me hizo evadir la lectura muchas veces fijándome en uno que otro buen símil, o en la parte final de los poemas que es en sí una conclusión o sea no me fue necesario leer todo el poema para entenderlo, el verso final lo significaba todo: fue una gran decepción.
Aún así, se pueden desprender interesantes citas:
"visibility is like memory"
"When your experience ardently links to an object where you live -husband, tree stone- you try to hold on to the visibility of this object and its location.
Connecting with a geography of sky gives this sense of security, inspiration."
"...and consciousness is mother."
"I mean presence as reciprocity."
"Night elicits, then highlights the tree, as if brightness (day, experience) were a flexible substance being thought into coherence, a mold." (es de las que más me gustaron, obviamente porque puede sobrevivir independiente del significado total del poemario)
"In the same way, the neural grid of an ecosystem continually adjusts to maintain..." (creo que esta es una de las sentencias que más he escuchado en mi vida en el último tiempo, créditos a hippiesgonnahip).
Aún así, se pueden desprender interesantes citas:
"visibility is like memory"
"When your experience ardently links to an object where you live -husband, tree stone- you try to hold on to the visibility of this object and its location.
Connecting with a geography of sky gives this sense of security, inspiration."
"...and consciousness is mother."
"I mean presence as reciprocity."
"Night elicits, then highlights the tree, as if brightness (day, experience) were a flexible substance being thought into coherence, a mold." (es de las que más me gustaron, obviamente porque puede sobrevivir independiente del significado total del poemario)
"In the same way, the neural grid of an ecosystem continually adjusts to maintain..." (creo que esta es una de las sentencias que más he escuchado en mi vida en el último tiempo, créditos a hippiesgonnahip).
heyrikehere's review
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
This was a weird one. I was really on board with the first third and throughout the book there are definitely some great lines and stanzas but it became too…spiritual? Towards the end for me.
The starting poems are great tho and are fun to take apart.
The starting poems are great tho and are fun to take apart.