{"product_id":"estelle-meaning-star-paperback","title":"Estelle Meaning Star - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Rosenthal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew collection from adventurous and innovative award winning Sarah Rosenthal.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Sara Rosenthal's ESTELLE MEANING STAR, light becomes love and sometimes dust, and dust is what we share with the stars, what we fall to, but also what we need. These collaged, torn and rearranged words-now-poems had their origins in cancer journals, and now they become guides and markers for all of us as wee wanter through the skies, through our lives. Rosenthal writes, in torn and pasted words, \"I'm trying to appear.\" Indeed, identities disappear and appear, and it is an act of courage, a trial indeed, that keeps us going, keeps us at least partially whole (an oxymoron that may belie a truth). This book is both gripping in its reality and its imaginings, and breathtaking in its visual embodiment of those states. Read this in one setting, and then again, and again. You may begin to understand the fragility and the strength of all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In ESTELLE MEANING STAR by Sarah Rosenthal, agony has wrenched language apart, decomposing it into lamentation. Dreams recorded during illness are the source for this beautiful and elemental text. Cut, sutured, disassembled, and rearranged, the words haunt the page, inhabiting the contradictory place of both dying and embodiment. As the human and inhuman draw closer together, the figure of Estelle recurs in the text as a sort of aperture between person and star, and the fact that we are made from dying stars takes on full poetic and mythic dimension. This is a searing, brilliant, compassionate dive into the conditions of our existence.\" --Camille Roy, author of \u003cem\u003eHoney Mine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sarah Rosenthal's new collection ESTELLE MEANING STAR offers a book-length meditation on mortality, illness, and living on the \"rim\" of familiar words and worlds. In a moment when the relentless production of public personas and linguistic cliches go hand in hand, ESTELLE MEANING STAR extends a humble and welcoming hand to the silences in public speech while \"A phrase or sentence\/limps toward me\/seems to be my\/damage dog.\" \"I've thanked\/the thin line\/that showed skin a world,\" the poet writes, extending that same hand to readers in gratitude for all the ways words can break open.\" --Chris Chen, author of \u003cem\u003eLiterature and Race in the Democracy of Goods: Reading Contemporary Black and Asian North American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Peril and transformative magic collide in Sarah Rosenthal's ESTELLE MEANING STAR. This collection -- textured by clipped words and letters that firmly situate the reader on this side of the veil of mortality -- thrusts us forward with the intuition of a mind guiding its body to a form of safety. Not unlike how we arrange distant stars into the shapes of constellations, we thread the shifting language and imagery of Rosenthal's poetry into a journey fit for the heroes of Greek epics, except that, here, we acclaim no hero for their triumph over threat, but for their acceptance of what cannot be conquered. If Estelle means star, it must be the one pointing us north, and I point you to this marvelous book.\"--Cortney Lamar Charleston, author of \u003cem\u003eDoppelgangbanger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry. Art. Women's Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Rosenthal is the author of MANHATTEN (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009) as well as several chapbooks including \u003cem\u003eEstelle Meaning Star\u003c\/em\u003e (above\/ground, 2014), \u003cem\u003edisperse\u003c\/em\u003e (Dusie, 2014), \u003cem\u003eThe Animal\u003c\/em\u003e (in collaboration with artist Amy Fung-yi Lee, Dusie, 2011), \u003cem\u003eHow I Wrote This Story\u003c\/em\u003e (Margin to Margin, 2001), \u003cem\u003esitings\u003c\/em\u003e (a +bend, 2000), and \u003cem\u003enot-chicago\u003c\/em\u003e (Melodeon, 1998). She edited \u003cem\u003eA Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Poets of the Bay Area\u003c\/em\u003e (Dalkey Archive, 2010). Her poetry has appeared in journals such as ELEVEN ELEVEN, \u003cem\u003eSidebrow\u003c\/em\u003e, ZEN MONSTER, \u003cem\u003eOtoliths\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eeccolinguistics\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003etextsound\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLittle Red Leaves\u003c\/em\u003e, and is anthologized in KINDERGARDE: AVANT-GARDE POEMS, PLAYS, AND STORIES FOR CHILDREN (Black Radish, 2013), \u003cem\u003eBuilding is a Process \/ Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim\u003c\/em\u003e (P-Queue, 2008), BAY POETICS (Faux, 2006), THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POSTCARD (City Lights, 2004), and \u003cem\u003ehinge\u003c\/em\u003e (Crack, 2002). Her essays and interviews have appeared in journals such as \u003cem\u003eJacket\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/em\u003e, NEW AMERICAN WRITING, and \u003cem\u003eHow2\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the recipient of the Leo Litwak Fiction Award, a Creative Capacity Innovation Grant, a San Francisco Education Fund Grant, and grant-supported writing residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Soul Mountain, and Ragdale. From 2009-2011 she was an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. She is a Life \u0026amp; Professional Coach and serves on the California Book Awards poetry jury.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 92\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47580923756765,"sku":"9781946104519","price":22.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/8VyyZ7Xpoo9781946104519.webp?v=1773552098","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/estelle-meaning-star-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}