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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.
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
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- I. Hydra
- In Which I Pray for Stars
- Longing as Dark Matter
- Heart as Siphonophore
- Heart Nebula
- hr 6819 and the Lovesick Be Star
- Eye as Firework Jellyfish
- Psyche as Vampire Squid
- The Dark Rift
- Oyster Nebula
- Sea Butterfly
- Question Mark Butterfly
- Trembling Aspen: Needle
- Fireball
- Your Never and Always Ring of Fire
- Via Negativa: New Moon
- II. Microscopium
- Butterfly Nebula
- Prayer for Traversing the Eye
- The Elysia Sea Slug
- Soul Nebula
- Leafy Sea Dragon
- Playing with Tiger Sharks on the Missile Range
- Manatee Nebula
- Crab Nebula
- Lyrebird
- Letter
- Soul as Half Moon
- Universal Law of Turbulence
- On Finding the Atom Is Divisible
- Petri Dish
- The Most Tiny Quantity of Reality Ever Imagined
- Moon Rust
- III. Crux
- Coalsack Nebula
- The Blue Hour
- Bow in the Clouds
- A Small Good Friday Service at Notre Dame Cathedral
- Holy Saturday
- St. Teresa’s Pillow
- Mary, Wife of Clopas
- Ghost Nebula
- On Neptune It Rains Diamonds
- Geminids
- Ribbons
- Super Supernova
- Trembling Aspen: Twine
- Exchange
- Cocoon
- IV. Telescopium
- Petition as Praying Mantis
- Morpho Butterfly
- Gedankenexperiment
- Fear as Absent Mountain Lion
- Hope as Alpha Centauri ab
- The Mother Gives Us
- Ophelia in Los Angeles
- Comet neowise, July 4th
- Iris Nebula
- Comma Butterfly
- Sign of the Times
- Terror Weather
- Approaching the Event Horizon
- Resilience as Daffodil
- Between 50 and 51
- Via Negativa: Corpse Flower
- V. Phoenix
- Fast Radio Bursts Detected Close to Earth
- We Are All God’s Poems
- Lazarus Rising
- Phoenix at Padre Serra Church
- Kepler’s Supernova Remnant
- Eagle Nebula
- Strawberry Supermoon
- Hours
- Heart as Honeycomb
- Trembling Aspen: Stitch
- Stingray Nebula
- Keyhole Nebula
- Kilonova as Composition
- Persephone at the Turn
- Blue Moon Butterfly
- Acknowledgments
- About Laura Reece Hogan
- Backwaters Prize in Poetry