Weeds And Stars by Lisa Rosenberg
from The Word Works
Feather to fire, plants to politics, Old Glory to accretion disks— Weeds and Stars, Lisa Rosenberg’s second collection, brings into deeper bloom what Robert Pinsky hailed in her debut: poetry “with an informed vision that is social as well as scientific, personal as well as historical.” These rhythmically grounded, formally varied explorations invite possibilities of kinship and transformation in the dichotomies that surround us, whether fantastic or ordinary, subatomic or cosmic in scale. Rosenberg engages with the tropes and expectations of Western lyric poetry, and the speaker that emerges is by turns wry, off-kilter, and playful, inviting us to reconsider agency, belonging, boundaries, and interconnectedness across eras and entities alike.
