Heather Christle

<P>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...

<P>Inspired by a voracious curiosity about humans and other subjects, the poems in Heather Christle's What Is Amazing describe and invent worlds in an attempt to understand through participation. The book draws upon the wisdom of foolishness and the logic of glee, while simultaneously exploring the suffering inherent to embodied consciousness. Speakers play out moments of bravado and fear, love and mortality, disappointment and desire. They socialize incorrigibly with lakes,...

"Se dice que quizá lloramos cuando fracasa el lenguaje, cuando las palabras ya no pueden transmitir adecuadamente nuestro dolor". La poeta Heather Christle desvela la historia íntima de sus lágrimas —desde el suicidio de un amigo hasta sus embarazos o la historia de depresión en su familia— para desentrañar las razones biológicas del llanto e investigar su influencia en el arte, la cultura y el feminismo. En estas páginas Christle nos descubre a una artista que diseña una pistola de...