"The age both of present-day poetry and of poetry-to-come is irreducibly and inevitably transcultural, multilingual, international." Together with his Imagems 1 and 2 (2013, 2019), Richard Berengarten's third collation of statements on poetics reaffirms poetry as imaginational.From catacombs of dreams and image(m)s coiled in reverie, through fissure of sign and syntax, in articulated rhythm, and in wordplay and word-coinage (verbing, nouning, unfinishment) - poetry, Berengarten assures us, comes into being from within to without. -Ana Radovic FiratThese lyrical meditations celebrate poetry as the form of language best fitted to bringing us more deeply and vividly into reality in its many psychic, natural, social, cultural, and spiritual dimensions. Through the beauty, precision, and generosity of their language, the meditations - prose poems themselves - not only pronounce this power but evoke and induct it. -Roderick MainHere, Richard Berengarten continues to advocate a numinous poetics, expres-sed in a language filtered through trees, whose oxygen we breathe. This is a poetics conceived in darkness, growing and spreading inexorably into light. For Berengarten, poetry begins and ends, and begins again, in an inherently shared present, spanning generations, where "all that's needed is breath. -Katie Lehman
