Butterfly Nebula

Butterfly Nebula er en stor, sanselig og tænkende digtsamling om stofskifte, syner og sygdom. I syv sammenvævede dele skriver Mette Moestrup rødglitrende, rituelle og hymniske digte om den sommerfugleformede kirtel, som styrer metabolismen. Hun har gennem syv år haft en autoimmun stofskiftelidelse. Ud fra dén kropslige erfaring besynger hun stofskiftet, der forbinder alle arter. Og begræder det ødelagte stofskifte mellem mennesket og jorden. Her er vilde og virtuose spring fra de små sten på stranden til den sommerfugleformede stjernetåge, som har givet bogen sit navn. Her er forvandlingsfællesskaber og helende seancer. Søvnløshedssange, blodspådomme. Og en rød ufo! Her blandes eufori med ond latter og dyb sorg. Her blandes ømhed med mysterier.

Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Butterfly Nebula reaches from the depths of the sea to the edges of space to chart intersections of the physical universe, the divine, the human, and the constantly unfolding experience of being "one thing in the act of becoming another." This collection of poems teems with creatures and cosmic phenomena that vivify and reveal our common struggle toward faith and identity. The longing and metamorphosis of the human heart and soul are reimagined in an otherworldly landscape of firework jellyfish, sea slug, stingray, praying mantis, butterfly and moth, moon and star, and celestial events ranging from dark matter and Kepler's Supernova remnant to a dozen classified nebulae. Our desire for purpose and renewal collides with the vast constellation of divine possibility in this collection, which invites the reader to enter a transformative world both deeply interior and embracing of the far-flung cosmos.

Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Butterfly Nebula reaches from the depths of the sea to the edges of space to chart intersections of the physical universe, the divine, the human, and the constantly unfolding experience of being "one thing in the act of becoming another." This collection of poems teems with creatures and cosmic phenomena that vivify and reveal our common struggle toward faith and identity. The longing and metamorphosis of the human heart and soul are reimagined in an otherworldly landscape of firework jellyfish, sea slug, stingray, praying mantis, butterfly and moth, moon and star, and celestial events ranging from dark matter and Kepler's Supernova remnant to a dozen classified nebulae. Our desire for purpose and renewal collides with the vast constellation of divine possibility in this collection, which invites the reader to enter a transformative world both deeply interior and embracing of the far-flung cosmos.