The Slain Birds

by Michael Longley

Book Overview

Michael Longley's new collection takes its title from Dylan Thomas--"for the sake of the souls of the slain birds sailing." The Slain Birds encompasses souls, slayings, and many birds, both dead and alive. The first poem laments a tawny owl killed by a car. That owl reappears later in "Totem," which represents the book itself as "a star-surrounded totem pole/ With carvings of all the creatures." "Slain birds" exemplify our impact on the creatures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930630999
• ISBN13: 9781930630994
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 9.1"