Wyrd] Bird

by Claire Marie Stancek

In times fraught with ecological and individual loss, Claire Marie Stancek's wyrd] bird grapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German mystic Hildegard of Bingen, a dream journal, a fragmentary notebook, a collection of poems, and a scrapbook of photographic ephemera. Stancek follows Hildegard as she guides the poet through an underworld...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1632430843
• ISBN13: 9781632430847
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Omnidawn
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.8"