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If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting

If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting

Journey, Anna

Paperback

Series: National Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 0820333689
ISBN13: 9780820333687
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Mar 15 2009
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.48 Depth: 8.56
Language: English

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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