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    An Aviary of Small Birds

    By Karen McCarthy Woolf

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    An Aviary of Small Birds is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. The book opens at the birth, which paradoxically becomes the moment of death when, after a long labor and an emergency caesarean, the baby's heart gives out. For the mother, her body flooded with endorphins, euphoria gives way to shock, followed by an intense and visceral grief. However, just as grief itself is not linear, so too the book follows an emotional rather than a strictly chronological arc, lyric rather than narrative. At the same time, Karen McCarthy Woolf's debut work is a formal experimentation that allows an intellectual and metaphysical line of enquiry to emerge. Ultimately, it is a closely felt connection with the natural world, particularly with water and birds, which allows the author to transcend the experience while honoring the spirit of her son.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd.
    Release dateNov 1, 2014
    ISBN9781906188252
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    An Aviary of Small Birds
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    Karen McCarthy Woolf

    Described in The Poetry Review as 'extraordinarily moving and technically flawless', Karen McCarthy Woolf's celebrated début was a Guardian Book of the Year and  PBS  Recommendation. She has presented her poetry in many forms, from collaborative choreography and radio soundscape to audiovisual installation, in venues around the world, from Mexico City and Singapore to the us and the Caribbean.

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