Auguries & Divinations

"A molten heat flames at the center of Heather Treseler’s new poetry collection… She writes of what it is to emerge into a world, and then try to escape it for another one, and the violence and release involved with the efforts." ~The Boston Globe

"Treseler delights in imaginative recasting: of the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Frank Bidart, and Gertrude Stein; of the personae of Anne Sexton and Sophia Hawthorne; and of paintings by George Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and William Merritt Chase." ~Poetry Foundation

"There had been plenty of signs and indications — auguries, so to speak — over the past few years that such achievement and recognition was coming Treseler's way as a poet." ~Worcester Magazine

"Treseler’s book contemplates love and womanhood, childlessness, and the transitory home that eros makes of flesh, building a rainy habitation from the rooms of her stanzas…" ~Lit Hub

"Heather Treseler’s debut collection of poems, Auguries & Divinations, recipient of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize […] which is just one achievement of Heather Treseler’s remarkable personal and poetic sojourn in Auguries & Divinations." ~On The Seawall: A Book Reviewery

"Dear Reader, I urge you to read Auguries & Divinations. Experience not only a fine debut collection, but a textured and accomplished book that claims its place in the masterful canon of modern poetry." ~Solstice Literary Magazine