Heron/Girlfriend

by Jen Tynes

"Everything is hot when taken / out of the body and into town." If maps could have weather, I'd say: here's a map of that journey, from the body into town and back. If a map could have sound-regional dialect sung by a shape-shifter "real buddy-buddy with the multiple / inlets." The Bo Diddley epigraph sets the tone, but Heron/Girlfriend is a woman's song. "Everyone looks / into my hollow and hollers / their own names. / I give holy hell / back in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615255116
• ISBN13: 9780615255118
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Coconut Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"