'[Heather Christle is] among the small handful of authors whose books I reflexively, half-consciously reach toward whenever I need inspiration, consolation, delight. Nobody thinks like her' Kaveh Akbar, Electric Literature'This is a stunning book' Jericho Brown'A striking celebration of risk and beauty' Kit Fan, GuardianPaper Crown is Heather Christle's first new collection of poems in ove...

«Questo libro ha preso il via cinque anni fa: mi chiedevo come sarebbe stato tracciare una mappa di tutti i luoghi in cui avevo pianto in vita mia, un'idea che mi accompagnava sempre, senza sapere quante pagine le sarebbero cresciute intorno.» Heather Christle è come tutti noi: piange. Spesso, in alcuni momenti della vita; poco, in altri. Come capita a tutti, fin da quando siamo piccoli. Piangiamo per gli amici scomparsi e per i figli che nascono, crescono, giocano sul tappeto di casa. A v...

'In a memoir that pulses with feeling and intelligence, [Christle] excavates the past to expose difficult truths' GuardianWhen Heather Christle realises that she, her mother, and Virginia Woolf share a traumatic history, she begins to rewrite and intertwine each of their stories, in search of a more hopeful narrative and a future she can live with.During a rare moment of vulnerability, Christle's mother shares a memory of assault as a child growing...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER**The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ ChoiceFacing motherhood and battling depression, a writer explores why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry in this “lyrical, moving” blend of essay, memoir, and cultural study for fans of Maggie Nelson (New York Times Book Review).****“A poignant and piercing examination of the phenomenon of tears . . . deeply felt, and genuinely touching.” —Esmé Weijun Wang,

«Se dice que quizá lloramos cuando fracasa el lenguaje, cuando las palabras ya no pueden transmitir adecuadamente nuestro dolor».La poeta Heather Christle desvela la historia íntima de sus lágrimas —desde el suicidio de un amigo hasta sus embarazos o la historia de depresión en su familia— para desentrañar las razones biológicas del llanto e investigar su influencia en el arte, la cultura y el feminismo. En estas páginas Christle nos descubre a una artista que diseña una pistola de...

'A deeply felt, and genuinely touching, book' Esmé Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias'Spellbinding and propulsive' Leni Zeumas, author of Red Clocks'The Crying Book is a rigorous and urgent work but it reads like an intimate gift' Kaveh Akbar, author of Calling a Wolf a WolfA DAZZLING MEDITATION ON TEARSIn this symphonic w...

For readers of Also a Poet, Orwell’s Roses, and My Autobiography Of Carson McCullers—as well as the legions of Virginia Woolf fanatics—the acclaimed poet and author of The Crying Book crafts a deeply moving, immersive, and lyrical hybrid memoir about her mother, Woolf, and the transformative power of writing.When Heather Christle realizes that she, her mother, and Virginia Woolf share a traumatic history, she begins to rewrite and intertw...

Since Heather Christle published her last poetry collection a decade ago, her nonfiction works The Crying Book and In the Rhododendrons have found her readers around the world. Paper Crown marks Christle's exuberant return to her home genre, in which she combines the imagination of her earliest poetry with the personal elements of her more recent prose. These poems conjure moments when the world's events (a child's words, early twentieth-century predictions of dr...

'Heather Christle's poems may well be one of the places readers turn when they want to know what it was like to be young and paying attention in the early 21st century . . . Her poems are wide awake' Mark DotyIn The Trees The Trees, each new line is a sharp turn toward joy and heartbreak, and each poem unfolds like a bat through the wild meaninglessness of the world.

Inspired by a voracious curiosity about humans and other subjects, the poems in Heather Christle's What Is Amazing describe and invent worlds in an attempt to understand through participation. The book draws upon the wisdom of foolishness and the logic of glee, while simultaneously exploring the suffering inherent to embodied consciousness. Speakers play out moments of bravado and fear, love and mortality, disappointment and desire. They socialize incorrigibly with lakes, lovers, fire, and...

Heather Christle's stunning fourth collection blends disarming honesty with keen leaps of the imagination. Like the boundary between our sun's sphere of influence and interstellar space, from which the book takes its name, the poems in Heliopause locate themselves along the border of the known and unknown, moving with breathtaking assurance from the page to the beyond. Christle finds striking parallels between subjects as varied as the fate of Voyager 1, the uncertain conception of new lif...

For readers of Also a Poet, Orwell’s Roses, and My Autobiography Of Carson McCullers—as well as the legions of Virginia Woolf fanatics—the acclaimed poet and author of The Crying Book crafts a deeply moving, immersive, and lyrical hybrid memoir about her mother, Woolf, and the transformative power of writing.When Heather Christle realizes that she, her mother, and Virginia Woolf share a traumatic history, she begins to rewrite and intertw...