What Bird are You
Published on 26. May 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
86 pages
979-8-88838-216-5 (ISBN)
Description
I've never seen a bird that hasn't made me want to live. When the first humans were born of clay, what bird did they become? Some of the most beloved origin stories are rooted in the realm of clay and birds. What Bird Are You? is a murmuration of bird song mapping Ohlone lands of the Pajaro Valley, famous birds of New York's Central and Prospect Parks, the Acoma Reservation, and daily life in Colorado's first "Bird City" through the ancient and modern arts of pottery and birdwatching. This collection of essays and poems explores what it means to live as a writer caught between the world of potters and the world of birds. Through mythology, memory, late-capitalism, and history this collection sculpts a poet's life out of a lump of clay and feathers.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
139 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-88838-216-5 (9798888382165)
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Amy Bobeda holds an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University and serves as the director of the writing center and sometimes teaches process-based art, writing, and pedagogy. Books include Red Memory (FlowerSong Press), What Bird Are You? (Finishing Line Press), and the chapbook Mi Sin Manitos (Ethel Press). Amy's work can be found in Ecotheo Review, Pithead Chapel, Denver Quarterly, Columbia Review, and elsewhere. Amy is the founder and publisher of Wisdom Body Collective, a process-based arts group rooted in somatic work and lineage as well as a member of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. Raised on the Amah Mutsun land of the Pajaro Valley, Amy is often found running in landlocked places.