If Birds Gather Your Hair For Nesting: Poems (The National Poetry Series) - Softcover

Journey, Anna

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9780820333687: If Birds Gather Your Hair For Nesting: Poems (The National Poetry Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0820333689 ISBN 13: 9780820333687
Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2009

Synopsis

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 river

I bit a man's neck. His scent: the raw

teak air husked inside stomachs of six

Russian nesting dolls―the ones in the attic I pulled

apart and open. The ones I

pulled apart and open like Styrofoam cups.

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About the Author

ANNA JOURNEY’s poems have been published in a number of journals, including American Poetry Review, FIELD, and Kenyon Review, and her essays have appeared in Blackbird, Notes on Contemporary Literature, and Parnassus.

From the Back Cover

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 river

I bit a man's neck. His scent: the raw

teak air husked inside stomachs of six

Russian nesting dolls--the ones in the attic I pulled

apart and open. The ones I

pulled apart and open like Styrofoam cups.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0820333689
ISBN 13 
9780820333687
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
104
Rating
  • 4.23 out of 5 stars
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