A History of Half-Birds: Poems

by First Last

Selected by Maggie Smith for the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, this debut collection of poems explores the aftermath of history's most powerful forces: devotion, disaster, and us.Rooted in the Gulf Coast, A History of Half-Birds measures the line between love and ruin. Part poet, part anthropologist, Caroline Harper New digs into dark places--a cave, a womb, a hurricane--to trace how violence born of devotion manifests not only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571315306
• ISBN13: 9781571315304
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"