Bird Skin Coat

Ronald Wallace author Angela Sorby author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press

Published:28th Feb '09

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Bird Skin Coat is brimming with startling moments of beauty found within a rusty and decayed landscape. With wild lyrical images of ascent and descent - doves and dives, sparrows and slugs, attics and cellars - this collection reflects Sorby's keen eye for blending images. As they shuttle between the Upper Midwest and the Pacific Northwest, these poems explore how the radical instability of the world is also the source of its energy. The woman he hit is still 42. She notes with wonder how her parka fits her perfectly the way a dove's skin holds the whole bird together. 'Fate is not a thing with feathers, it's old, bald, and blind, a pope who can't decipher the man's name, David Pratt, as he scrawls it on scratch paper' - excerpt from ""Bird Skin Coat"" [copyright]. The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.

  • Winner of Brittingham Prize in Poetry 2009

ISBN: 9780299231941

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 218g

94 pages