Butterfly Nebula
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Butterfly Nebula

  1. 98 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Butterfly Nebula

About this book

Gold Medal for the 2024 Illumination Book Award
Honorable Mention for the 2024 Catholic Media Association Book Award 


Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Butterfly Nebula reaches from the depths of the sea to the edges of space to chart intersections of the physical universe, the divine, the human, and the constantly unfolding experience of being “one thing in the act of becoming another.” This collection of poems teems with creatures and cosmic phenomena that vivify and reveal our common struggle toward faith and identity. The longing and metamorphosis of the human heart and soul are reimagined in an otherworldly landscape of firework jellyfish, sea slug, stingray, praying mantis, butterfly and moth, moon and star, and celestial events ranging from dark matter and Kepler’s Supernova remnant to a dozen classified nebulae. Our desire for purpose and renewal collides with the vast constellation of divine possibility in this collection, which invites the reader to enter a transformative world both deeply interior and embracing of the far-flung cosmos.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. I. Hydra
  9. In Which I Pray for Stars
  10. Longing as Dark Matter
  11. Heart as Siphonophore
  12. Heart Nebula
  13. hr 6819 and the Lovesick Be Star
  14. Eye as Firework Jellyfish
  15. Psyche as Vampire Squid
  16. The Dark Rift
  17. Oyster Nebula
  18. Sea Butterfly
  19. Question Mark Butterfly
  20. Trembling Aspen: Needle
  21. Fireball
  22. Your Never and Always Ring of Fire
  23. Via Negativa: New Moon
  24. II. Microscopium
  25. Butterfly Nebula
  26. Prayer for Traversing the Eye
  27. The Elysia Sea Slug
  28. Soul Nebula
  29. Leafy Sea Dragon
  30. Playing with Tiger Sharks on the Missile Range
  31. Manatee Nebula
  32. Crab Nebula
  33. Lyrebird
  34. Letter
  35. Soul as Half Moon
  36. Universal Law of Turbulence
  37. On Finding the Atom Is Divisible
  38. Petri Dish
  39. The Most Tiny Quantity of Reality Ever Imagined
  40. Moon Rust
  41. III. Crux
  42. Coalsack Nebula
  43. The Blue Hour
  44. Bow in the Clouds
  45. A Small Good Friday Service at Notre Dame Cathedral
  46. Holy Saturday
  47. St. Teresa’s Pillow
  48. Mary, Wife of Clopas
  49. Ghost Nebula
  50. On Neptune It Rains Diamonds
  51. Geminids
  52. Ribbons
  53. Super Supernova
  54. Trembling Aspen: Twine
  55. Exchange
  56. Cocoon
  57. IV. Telescopium
  58. Petition as Praying Mantis
  59. Morpho Butterfly
  60. Gedankenexperiment
  61. Fear as Absent Mountain Lion
  62. Hope as Alpha Centauri ab
  63. The Mother Gives Us
  64. Ophelia in Los Angeles
  65. Comet neowise, July 4th
  66. Iris Nebula
  67. Comma Butterfly
  68. Sign of the Times
  69. Terror Weather
  70. Approaching the Event Horizon
  71. Resilience as Daffodil
  72. Between 50 and 51
  73. Via Negativa: Corpse Flower
  74. V. Phoenix
  75. Fast Radio Bursts Detected Close to Earth
  76. We Are All God’s Poems
  77. Lazarus Rising
  78. Phoenix at Padre Serra Church
  79. Kepler’s Supernova Remnant
  80. Eagle Nebula
  81. Strawberry Supermoon
  82. Hours
  83. Heart as Honeycomb
  84. Trembling Aspen: Stitch
  85. Stingray Nebula
  86. Keyhole Nebula
  87. Kilonova as Composition
  88. Persephone at the Turn
  89. Blue Moon Butterfly
  90. Acknowledgments
  91. About Laura Reece Hogan
  92. Backwaters Prize in Poetry