Alsous, Zaina
Summary: This layering of bird, woman, place, technology, and ceremony, which begins this first full-length collection by Zaina Alsous, mirrors the layering of insights that marks the collection as a whole. The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory, historical record, critical theory, alternative geographies, and sharp observation. In them, birds—particularly extinct species—become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Arkansas Press 2019
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Contents: I. Just wanted to show you a picture of myself. This day is in love with me -- Aquarium -- Nude self-portrait -- Expiation -- Lost in the cant -- Krash -- Prose, I say, plasma -- Inside a thin egg -- A bucket full of radiant toys -- Supernova love shah -- Sprezzatura -- I inspect my face -- Negligee, negligent, negligence -- Just wanted to show you a picture of myself -- II. Jagged with love....
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 2005