Sagittarius A*

by Ben Kline

Taking its name from an astronomical radio source (and likely supermassive black hole) at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, Ben Kline’s Sagittarius A* contains poems that interpolate wonder and living with interstellar phenomena and theories in astrophysics. Pondering the body, the self, spaceships and wormholes, Kline’s work reminds us that the stars can show us a path to understanding ourselves. Like beams of light illuminating darkness, where we know something moves, these poems ask: What is that?

Genres: Poetry

42 pages, Paperback

Published October 6, 2020

About the author

Ben Kline lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, writing about our modern digital existence, former lovers, the Eighties, assorted concepts in astrophysics and growing up Appalachian. His chapbook of outer space/astrophysics poems Sagittarius A* was released by Sibling Rivalry Press in October 2020. His chapbook Dead Uncles arrives in May 2021 from Driftwood Press. He serves as a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal and as a poet whisperer for many friends.

Reviews

[Pamela · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is an event horizon or a spinning galaxy or a constellation. Or all of these. Each of Kline's poems holds a universe. The celestial diction suits the vast emotions of earthly enterprises depicted--a mother's death opens chasms, the touch of another human sends the poet--and the reader. Kline knits the collection with this overarching metaphor.