conversations.from: human
conversations.value: a description for a book titled Like a Beggar about Saturns, Newtons, Pablo with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Poetry
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: In her fifth book of poetry, the author addresses everything from Saturns rings and Newtons law of gravitation to wasps and Pablo Neruda. Her words are nostalgic, vivid, and visceral. In contemplation of slaughtered chickens, a fly, jellyfish, and the thousand-pound heart of the blue whale, the author arrives at the truth of human carnality rooted in the extraordinary need and promise of the individual. Through the author eyes, a pearly orchid is not unlike the milky thighs of a womanblood blooming through her veinsand the thorax of the wasp expanding and contracting has the power to make us aware of our own shallow breath. In the exoskeleton of a wasp and in the earth that once fell ever so slightly... toward the apple, the author shows us that we are as radiant as we are ephemeral, that in transience glistens resilient history and the remarkable fluidity of connection. By the collections endfollowing her musings on suicide and generosity, desire and repetitionit becomes lucidly clear that the author is not only a poet but also a philosopher and a storyteller. --Briana Shemroske