If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	National Poetry
Release date:	March 2009
First published:	March 2009
Authors:	Anna Journey
Compiled by:	Thomas Lux
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	104
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-3368-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-8203-3368-9
Barcode:	9780820333687

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