Mechanical Bird

by Asa Boxer

An old idea of reality animates the poems in The Mechanical Bird things are never what they seem. Opening with a quick-talking disquisition on lying ("Keep it simple, tidy, / take a noncommittal stance") and ending with masterly mediation on the workshop and its "drawing-board dreams," Asa Boxer's debut constantly tests the claims of authenticity over artifice. Objects, settings and everyday details are swept up in an imagination that can never...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550652273
• ISBN13: 9781550652277
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Vehicule Press
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.7" x 8.5"