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there was this bird

there was this bird

Chaney, Nikia

Paperback

Series: Possession Sound Reading, Book 4

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1949166104
ISBN13: 9781949166101
Publisher: Poetry Northwest Editions
Published: Mar 25 2025
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In Nikia Chaney's there was this bird, narrative erupts with a force both musical and visual. With experimental arrangements of text and deep sonic resonance, Chaney affirms herself a virtuoso of transforming stories of identity, marginalization, and race into landscapes at once beautiful and heartbreaking. Part traditional lyric, part dynamic geometric proof, the book invites readers into a concrete collaborative experience. I want to tell you a story, Chaney writes, and that story is a sweeping exploration of what it means to be a person of color in today's America. every story is the same: you trying to erase what I am. Chaney counters each erasure by pushing imagination to the edge of the page-quite literally-where words swarm and reform, not unlike watching a flock of starlings move through evening skies. there was this bird turns stone, pebble, lake, and person into a new landscape-one of possibility, of visual art, of song.

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