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.

A Perfect Catastrophe
Disintegration Loop 1.1
Vernon Street
Summer
Realistic Flowers
I Am Glad of Your Arrival
It's an Empire Out There
Elegy for Neil Armstrong
And This Too Comes Apart
Such and Such a Time at Such and Such a Palace
Me and My Head as Pieces of Wood
Flowers Are Also Letters
Nature Poem
They Are Leaving You a Message
Drapes
Uncloudy
Not Much More Room in the Cemetery
As If No Light Could Warm You
How Long Is the Heliopause
Some Glamorous Country
In the Dumps
Pursuits
Aesthetics of Crying
Keep in Shape
Optioned
Annual
Ecumene
Dear Seth
Poem for Bill Cassidy
Notes and Acknowledgments