Auguries Divinations: Poems [Paperback]

Winner of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize.Auguries & Divinations tracks a young womans coming-of-age, attuned to the unspoken rules (and liabilities) of womens lives, the suburban underworld, and the energies of eros. An older woman, Lucie, becomes the narrators Beatrice in love and survival, and she returns to New England seasoned and ready to claim a life of her own making, drawing on her study of the love lyricfrom Catullus to Frank Bidartand the classical practice of augury, or observing the birds to discern human fate.Brad Crenshaw, in choosing the book for the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, notes: Heather Treseler is compelling. We immediately want to listen to her the way we might listen to a lyric singer full of melody and rhythm... But make no mistake, running through all her lyricism is a staring, unblinking intelligence that informs us about what she sees. Her vision is inclusive, generous, wide-ranging, and enthralling.Winner of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry PrizeWinner of the Shelia Margaret Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club A molten heat flames at the center of Heather Treselers new poetry collection& She writes of what it is to emerge into a world, and then try to escape it for another one, and the violence and release involved with the efforts. Treseler delights in imaginative recasting: of the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Frank Bidart, and Gertrude Stein; of the personae of Anne Sexton and Sophia Hawthorne; and of paintings by George Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and William Merritt Chase. There had been plenty of signs and indications  auguries, so to speak  over the past few years that such achievement and recognition was coming Treseler's way as a poet. Treselers book contemplates love and womanhood, childlessness, and the transitory home that eros makes of flesh, building a rainy habitation from the rooms of her stanzas& Heather Treselers debut collection of poems, Augurl3¢