Auguries & Divinations: Poems

by Heather Treseler

Winner of the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry, the May Sarton Poetry Prize, and the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Award, Auguries & Divinations tracks a young woman's coming-of-age, attuned to the textures of women's lives, the suburban underworld, and the energies of eros. An older woman, Lucie, becomes the narrator's Beatrice in love and survival, and she returns to New England ready to claim a life of her own making, drawing on the classical practice of augury, or observing the birds to discern human fate.

Genres: Poetry

120 pages, Paperback

Published April 10, 2024

Reviews

[Virginia del Río · Rating 5 out of 5]

For many hours absorbed in reading Heather, and for many hours that follow absorbed in the aftermath, the research plus the feeling.

[Enry Ravaglini · Rating 4 out of 5]

Technically pretty solid. Really nice use of enjabment. Dunno how I feel about Anne Sexton as a medium, but I'm really not an expert on her work. Maybe I should be.

[Alyse Knorr · Rating 5 out of 5]

This marvelous book is rich with eros, art, etymology, and birds. Treseler’s poems are resonantly musical and courageous in their revelations and philosophizing. From Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin to Emily Dickinson and Catullus, Treseler evokes and embodies her poetic ancestors as she pushes the lyric into ever tighter, ever more compelling realms. My very favorite thing about this book is its consideration of deep, abiding female friendship, and of the role of Eros within such friendships. This is not a collection to miss.