If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting by Journey, Anna

If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820333687)

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If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting by Journey, Anna

If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting

$20.95
If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting by Journey, Anna

If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting

$20.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Anna Journey
ISBN-10: 0820333689
ISBN-13: 9780820333687
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2009
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.56h x 6.48w x 0.30d
By Anna Journey
By Anna Journey
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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 In 2006, Journey discovered the unpublished status of Sylvia Plath's early sonnet "Ennui" and the influence of Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" on it.

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