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"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 lágrimas heladas; a una polilla que se alimenta de las lágrimas de otros animales y artilugios para lidiar con el duelo como el «lacrimatorio», un recipiente de la Antigüedad donde el «doliente pudiese verter sus lágrimas recién derramadas». La autora nos hechiza con sus fragmentos poéticos y explora cómo la historia de las lágrimas se enlaza con la violencia racista o el estigma de la enfermedad mental. Brillante, ingenioso y sincero, El libro de las lágrimas es una celebración de la poesía y un particular homenaje a la fascinante rareza de las lágrimas.

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<P>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 readers, reasoning their way to unreasonable conclusions. These poems try to understand how it is that we come to recognize and differentiate objects and beings, how wholly each is attached to its name, and which space reveals them. What Is Amazing delights in fully inhabiting its varied forms and voices, singing worlds that often coincide with our own.</P>

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[b]NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A poignant and piercing examination of the phenomenon of tears—exhaustive, yes, but also open-ended. . . A deeply felt, and genuinely touching, book." —Esmé Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias "Spellbinding and propulsive—the map of a luminous mind in conversation with books, songs, friends, scientific theories, literary histories, her own jagged joy, and despair. Heather Christle is a visionary writer." —Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks [/b] Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen-tear-shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear-collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.

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<P>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 life, the nature of elegy, and the decaying transmission of information across time. Nimbly engaging with current events and lyric past, Heliopause marks a bold shift and growing vision in Christle's work. An online reader's companion will be available.</P>

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