Four Year Old Girl

Mei-mei Berssenbruge

• Title

  Four Year Old Girl

• Date 1998
• ISBN 9780932716446
• Publisher Berkley, CA: Kelsey Street Press
• Description 78 p.; 23 x 21 cm
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, Erizo Residency
• Summary

  In this extraordinary new collection of poems by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, writing reflects human presence in the phenomenal world. Physical sensations of experience—a horizon, moisture, a child, a piece of quartz, a loss—become objects of focus and poetic elements. Her written lines, like strings of protein, both create and destroy bonds. Reading affords moments of exquisite vulnerability in which the perceived world is suddenly exposed to the quick. The pace of everday life slips into that of a waking dream. Winner of the 1998 Western States Book Award. (Amazon)

• Tags Erizo Residency, Poetry, Women poets