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Warble

Warble

Myers, Alicia Rebecca

Paperback

Series: The Birdy Poetry Prize

General Poetry

ISBN10: 195657865X
ISBN13: 9781956578652
Publisher: Meadowlark Poetry Press
Published: Feb 4 2025
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.31 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The poems in Alicia Rebecca Myers's debut collection explore a fascination with the phenomena within and beyond a person - whether becoming a mother or observing a sea turtle migration. The language is rich with metaphor but conversational and direct, with a compelling balance between prose and lineated poems. Myers finds in the everyday, in oxidized pesto and a crepe paper streamer, new ways of expressing shared experiences. She captures the full range of human emotion - sadness, grief, humor, and overarching love - as the poems process taking care of one aging parent in the wake of losing the other. Warble also contextualizes what it means to be a daughter and a mother in modern-day America by offering snapshots of pop culture and the wider American experience, from Love Is Blind to gun violence. This is a book that asks of us, In a lifetime, what do we keep, and what do we release? What sings on beyond our time, and how are we immortalized by that music?

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