Name: Songbird
SKU: 64814568
Price: 20.39 EUR
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Author: Carol Ann Davis
ISBN: 9780819502216

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Publisher

Wesleyan University Press

Author

Carol Ann Davis

Year

2026

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Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2 cm

ISBN13

9780819502216

Songbird

Carol Ann Davis (Author) · Wesleyan University Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "Songbird"

Resonant poems give form to the paradoxes of embodiment and interiorityUtilizing the short lyric poem in long sequence, Songbird addresses matters both urgent and ancient: what it is to grow from a child into an adult, how to remain inside one's body, what it means to open the mouth and sing. Guided by the images, senses, and sounds provided to her by the natural world, the poet invents a stuttering natal language to approach the unsayable aspects of interior life. In doing so, the poems collectively trouble the binaries that beset modern existence: the simultaneous push-pull of sexual desire; the interior and exterior landscapes that shape our perceptual fields; the reckoning of violence with beauty; the human need for both permanency and flight. Songbird is a daring and necessary book. [sample poem]let me take something smallbetween my teethpiece of straw meant to signify your bodywhich was given freely to me or threads of methat are wheat strands always these small barters for a price would I give you the edge that is your absence for my presence and you between my teethfor the price of grass the price of all grassesso say I to you in prayer I would swallow whole what gave you in part