Auguries & Divinations

"In Auguries & Divinations, winner of the 2023 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, poet Heather Treseler tracks a young woman's coming of age, attuned to the unspoken liabilities of women's lives, the suburban underworld, and the energies of eros. An older woman becomes the narrator's Beatrice in love and survival, and she returns to the New England of her childhood ready to claim a life of her own making, drawing on the classical practice of augury, or observing birds to discern human fate"--