A History of Half-Birds: Poems

by First Last and Caroline Harper New

Book Overview

Selected by Maggie Smith for the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, this debut collection of poems explores the aftermath of history's most powerful forces: devotion, disaster, and us.Rooted in the Gulf Coast, A History of Half-Birds measures the line between love and ruin. Part poet, part anthropologist, Caroline Harper New digs into dark places--a cave, a womb, a hurricane--to trace how violence born of devotion manifests not only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571315306
• ISBN13: 9781571315304
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"