Drawing on four decades of work and including new poems published here for the first time, this selection of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s poetry displays the extraordinary luminosity characteristic of her style—its delicate, meticulous observation, great scenic imagination, and unusual degree of comfort with states of indetermination, contingency, and flux.
| from Summits Move with the Tide (1974) |
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3 | (1) |
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4 | (2) |
| from Random Possession (1979) |
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6 | (1) |
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7 | (2) |
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from The Field for Blue Corn |
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9 | (4) |
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13 | (2) |
| from The Heat Bird (1983) |
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15 | (7) |
| from Empathy (1989) |
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22 | (2) |
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24 | (2) |
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26 | (2) |
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28 | (2) |
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30 | (8) |
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38 | (10) |
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48 | (4) |
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52 | (2) |
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54 | (6) |
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60 | (5) |
| from Sphericity (1993) |
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65 | (3) |
| from Endocrinology (1997) |
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68 | (5) |
| from Four Year Old Girl (1998) |
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73 | (4) |
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77 | (3) |
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80 | (3) |
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83 | (5) |
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88 | (5) |
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93 | (5) |
| from Nest (2003) |
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98 | (4) |
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102 | (5) |
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107 | (3) |
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110 | (2) |
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112 | (5) |
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117 | (4) |
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121 | (4) |
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125 | (1) |
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126 | (1) |
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127 | (2) |
| New Poems |
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129 | (4) |
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133 | (4) |
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137 | (4) |
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141 | (4) |
| Acknowledgment |
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Mei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing and lives in New Mexico. She is the author of nine volumes of poetry, including Nest, The Four Year Old Girl, and Empathy.
