If Birds Gather Your Hair For Nesting

Poems

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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In this debut collection, Anna Journey invites the reader into her peculiar, noir universe nourished with sex and mortality. Her poems are haunted by demons, ghosts, and even the living who wander exotic landscapes that appear at once threatening and seductive. In these poems, her sly speaker renames a pink hibiscus on display at Lowe's, "Lucifer's Panties"; another character chants, "I'd fall devil / over heels over edge over oleander"; and one woman writes a letter to the underworld:Dear black bayou, once, by a riverI bit a man's neck. His scent: the rawteak air husked inside stomachs of sixRussian nesting dolls—the ones in the attic I pulledapart and open. The ones Ipulled apart and open like Styrofoam cups.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2009-03-15
Mått140 x 216 x 8 mm
Vikt159 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNational Poetry Series
Antal sidor104
FörlagUniversity of Georgia Press
ISBN9780820333687

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Many female poets address sex in tones of victimhood, but Journey is downright predatory. Indeed, she's all about ecstasy in the original sense, meaning to leave your state of being. But if living to the fullest requires ecstasy, then it also requires a dose of death. Journey has her misgivings about this, which hints at a kind of existential sanity. That makes If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting a fabulous little book, the work of a young poet (I kept hearing bits of Wallace Stevens and Maxine Kumin) wise beyond her years.