Bending the Arch

✅ In answer to Seamus Heaneys Station 🚉 Island 🏝️ and ➕ Pablo Nerudas The Heights of Machu Picchu, Berger unmasks the worldview of westward expansion from 👨‍💼 Eero Saarinens arch in St. Louis to the Golden Gate in a way that subtly ➕ mystically taps the worldview of westward expansion from architect Eero Saarinens arch in St. Louis to the Golden Gate in a way that subtly and mystically taps the unconsciousness of the intended audience. When she 👤👩 writes ✍️ We 👥⬅️ never entered ➡️🚪 the West ⬅️ on bended knee, the impurity of language used in this epic creates tension between discourses and ➕ creates a charge or pressure on each sentence that pushes the reader toward declaring an allegiance. Drawing 🖌️ on historical documents 📃, the Latin 🔠 Mass, and ➕ multivalent voices, Berger moves through the anguish of unintended consequences and ➕ leads the reader through the ghost 👻 dance 💃 of feeling 💆‍♀️ to the powerful Pacific Ocean 🌊, which enters ➡️🚪 human consciousness like a dream. Entangled historical memory, climate crisis, and ➕ inverse expansionism compress 🗜️ into a spiritual reckoning to face 😀 the world 🗺️ to come.In St. Louis for a baptism during the great flood of 1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣3️⃣ (both themes prominent in these poems), Berger looked 👀 through Saarinens Arch and ➕ saw 👀 all the way to the Farallon Islands 🏝️. . . . This is decolonizing poetry: literate, theologically rich, and ➕ densely annotated.--Ched Myers, Bartimaeus Cooperative MinistriesRose Berger is doing poetic alchemy in her 👤👩⬅️ new 🆕 book 📚️, Bending The Arch. She 👤👩 does it right ➡️ before us 👥⬅️. She 👤👩 is mixing vision with insight, words with symbo...

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