Star Map with Action Figures Rainer Maria Rilke JESSICA TRACY is a professor

JESSICA TRACY is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia

her pastry shop is bursting at the seams and she needs extra employees but there is no place to put them

who's having some difficulty looking after herself-and her eleven cats

Filled with bullet points to make tips and strategies quick and easy to grasp

a delegate has fallen to his death

Star Map with Action Figures Rainer Maria Rilke JESSICA TRACY is a professor"How does a sentence, just like that, become prayer?" Part parable, part bestiary, part glossary of possible and impossible loves, Star Map with Action Figures, poem after poem, provides an answer. From the space between punishment and its promise, Phillips quizzes the thousand churlish faces of desire: two boys making love on a riverbank, a horse named Nightmare, the self "a needle pushed through the stretched canvas of belief." Star Map with Action