Four year old girl

Her largest, most substantial book to date, Four Year Old Girl features eleven extended poems, each written with what has become Berssenbrugge's characteristic elegant, long line -- which hovers between composition and decomposition: In a world which transcends the confines of her transcient being, she can reach / and bring existences within the compass of her life, without annulling / their transcendence. These invisible entities infuse the visible with feminity, / showing nonlocation by the adjectival status of her mind. You place sixteen girls / in a meadow and always fill it. . . . (from Irises). Artist (and the poet's husband) Richard Tuttle's gouache is on the cover. (A signed special print of the cover art is featured in the limited edition.)… (more)