- 80 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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An Aviary of Small Birds
About this book
An Aviary of Small Birds is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. Here, birth paradoxically becomes the moment of death when, after a long labour, the baby's heart gives out. However, just as grief is not linear, so too the book follows an emotional rather than a chronological arc. Ultimately, it is a closely felt connection with nature that allows the author to transcend the experience and honour the spirit of her son.
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Yes, you can access An Aviary of Small Birds by Karen McCarthy Woolf in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & European Poetry. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- The Undertaker
- Wing
- My Limbs Beat Against the Glass
- Morbleu
- Mort-Dieu
- White Butterflies
- Yellow Logic
- Missing
- The Paperwork
- The Museum of Best Laid Plans
- The Registrar’s Office
- Of August
- Pinhole Camera
- Portrait of a Small Bird on a Tree of 12 Metres
- Of Jealousy
- I Remember Your Mother Dying
- Where Steel Clatters
- Starlight
- Fragments
- The Scales
- Moon in Her Many Guises
- The Puppies
- The Iris Field
- A Small Ball of Mercury
- Circle
- Emotions
- July
- Bamboo
- August
- Of Roadkill and Other Corpses
- Against the Clock
- Otto
- Reasons to Fear Butterflies
- The Calf
- The Sooty Shearwaters
- Hawk
- Letter to Miriam
- A Matter of Gravity
- The Last Sardine
- Swim Often
- After August
- The Weather in the Womb
- As an Axe Misses the Tree
- An Aviary of Small Birds
- Tasting Note for Grief #17
- The Wish
- About the Author
- Copyright