Bird Arsonist

by Gary Barwin and Tom Prime

They say that the language of birds is the closest to that of the divine. They also say that poetry is the unacknowledged legislator of the world. In BIRD ARSONIST, Tom Prime and Gary Barwin--like all good avant-gardists--flip these commonplaces on their heads, showing that poetry sets alight any transparent, easy, lawful language, or is precisely what language spits out as it turns to ash. Compressed to the point of implosion, the poems that make...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554201853
• ISBN13: 9781554201853
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: New Star Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.8" x 7.8"