PositiveLos Angeles Review of Books... there is something hopeful about the vast compassion of Berssenbrugge’s poetry and the living connections she gently illuminates between all things ... The burden of proof is never placed on the storyteller, and the rejection of \'evidence\' and quantifiable \'primary data\' mark a step away from Western theories of epistemology as accessible only through proof and reasoning, toward a broader sense of understanding ... The speaker’s voice flows seamlessly, inhabiting the consciousness of the fawn and griever without dissonance ... The subtleties of Berssenbrugge’s grammatical shifts heighten the attention that she accords to the complex relations between words, sentences, things ... With care and compassion, Berssenbrugge reimagines what a \'treatise\'—as a formal, systematic display of knowledge—might look like. In this time of enforced distancing, A Treatise on Stars speaks to the vital interconnectedness of all things, and points to active links with the nonhuman. It offers a meditative mode of attention without reproach.
