Empathy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811229401)

Empathy, first published by Station Hill Press in 1989, marked a turning point in Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's poetry, her lines lengthening across the page like so many horizons, tuned intimately to the natural world and its human relations, at once philosophical, lush, and rhythmic. As she writes in the new note for this edition, "I started to feel my way toward an intuited subliminal wholeness of composition." In these poems, empathy not only becomes the space of one person inside another, but of one element (water, or fog), one place (tundra or desert mesa), one animal (the swan) as the locus of human illumination and desire.

Author: Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
ISBN-10: 0811229408
ISBN-13: 9780811229401
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2020
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.40h x 8.30w x 0.40d