A Theory of Birds Plooi

A Theory of Birds PlooiZaina Alsous 'Inside the dodo bird is a forest, Inside the forest a peach analog, Inside the peach analog a woman, Inside the woman a lake of funerals' This layering of bird, woman, place, technology, and ceremony, which begins this first full length collection by Zaina Alsous, mirrors the layering of insights that marks the collection as a whole. The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory, historical record, critical theory, alternative

translated by Urayán Noel

in what country or during what conflict

manganese deficiency

Laure Prouvost

componeert ze versbeelden die afwijkend zijn en energiek

How exquisite the sounds

has sunk her thoughts in her everyday perceptions to capture the continuity of a reality that

Is one allowed to write such a book

zoals mijn moeder tot haar navel

” The first of his books to appear in English

van de vele bandjes waarin hij speelde tot het doortimmerde ritme van zijn gedichten

dg nanouk okpik