If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting - Paperback
by Anna Journey
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820333687ISBN-10:820333689UPC:9780820333687Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.56 x 6.48 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCBCFPQEDB
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.Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820333687ISBN-10:820333689UPC:9780820333687Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.56 x 6.48 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCBCFPQEDB
Anna Journey is currently a PhD candidate in creative writing and literature at the University of Houston and a poetry editor for "Gulf Coast." Her 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." In 2006, Journey discovered the unpublished status of Sylvia Plath's early sonnet "Ennui" and the influence of Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" on it.
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