Constance Brewer’s Astronomy Lessons scatters poems across the night sky of an emotional landscape we all know: love. Whether love’s objects are lovers, parents, children, or earth itself, these poems orbit around that which pulls us to reach farther, hold tighter, look deeper. The physics of love are everywhere. Brewer writes, It’s the passage of filament from one person / to another where theory goes astray….leaving us unable to explain the one thing / that would help us explain everything. Yet these poems somehow contain everything we might feel as we gaze upward, when we’re waiting / for science, having long given up on gods. That’s when we understand we are all made of star dust. —Kathleen Cassen Mickelson, co-founding editor of Gyroscope Review, and co-author of Prayer Gardening . Ever dreamed of becoming a constellation? It may not be what you imagine. In this collection Constance Brewer takes on multiple personas, modern and mythological, all attempting to wrestle with “things (they) don’t understand—/ cosmology, evolution, personal relationships” through metaphors and motifs of astronomy. Using cosmic imagery and lyrical story-telling these poems take us through the trajectory of growing up, growing older, finding and losing love and looking for it again, all against the backdrop of a cosmos that is comparatively vast and yet familiar. Though this collection seeks for wisdom it often leaves us with the mystery of unanswerable questions, like “what should we think about before we drink from the river Lethe” and “what is love but a failed picture of the moon?” —Tresha Faye Haefner, author of When the Moon Had Antlers (Pine Row Press, 2023, Finalist for the Glass Lyre Poetry Prize) and Founder of The Poetry Salon Constance Brewer’s poetry has appeared in Avalon Literary Review, Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop, Kosmos Quarterly, Door is A Jar, Sheila-Na-Gig, Harpur Palate, Rappahannock Review, and The Nassau Review , among other journals and anthologies. Constance is a founding editor for Gyroscope Review magazine, a contemporary poetry quarterly, and the recipient of a Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship Grant in poetry. She is the author of the book Piccola Poesie: A Nibble of Short Form Poetry , and the co-authored chapbook, Prayer Gardening (Kelsay Books). Constance is fond of Welsh Corgis, weekends, and woodcut printmaking. Read more at www.constancebrewer.com