Birds of America
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See how the eagles lift now, bound by surviving together.
We only get one shot at this. Save
what you can. Love even what you can’t save.
What does it mean to love someone, and to love the world, when what we love is vanishing? In Birds of America, award-winning poet Chera Hammons reckons with the intersection of personal violence and the violence humans have wrought upon our planet and explores the beauty that remains among the ruins. With graceful lyricism, she translates seemingly mundane scenes from the natural world—two eagles locked together in a tandem dive, the fresh sweetness of wild onions—into exquisite revelations of human feeling, inviting us to glimpse the hidden magic of the everyday.
For anyone who struggles to remain grounded when it feels like the world is falling apart, each poem in Birds of America offers a meditative lens with which to view the fraught relationships we have with the living beings around us, which come to life through exquisite artwork by acclaimed illustrator Sophie Lucido Johnson. Hammons encourages us to love fiercely, to embrace a future where our damage teaches us to be kinder people, and to never give up on the beauty of our world.
Commentaires
“Birds of America is a pliant, wise clarion collection that draws on the natural world to offer testimony, witness, and, ultimately, healing. This is a birder’s guide to survival, with the poet as our binoculars—trained outward toward the sky and inward toward the most vulnerable chambers of the heart.”—Jennifer Givhan, author of Belly to the Brutal and Salt Bones
“How much I enjoyed Chera Hammons’s Birds of America. It’s gorgeous (also witty, harrowing and moving)!”—Ron Charles
“In Birds of America, Chera Hammons listens like an expert. She listens to birdsong and weather, to hunger, debt, illness, and inheritance, and to all the fragile bargains that let a life continue. Like a nest woven with some of your own hair, these poems intertwine natural history with family history, where drought, extinction, genetic chance, and economic precariousness mirror the risks carried by bodies, animal and human alike.”—Taylor Mali, author of The Whetting Stone
“These days, there’s a lot to think about. Some days, there’s too much. When time doesn’t fly, birds do. The medicinal lightness and brightness of birds—seeing birds, hearing birds—can set the world almost straight again. Chera Hammons’ insightful eye gives new voice to birds, striking just the right chord when a morning needs to get off on the right note, or an evening needs centering before slumber.”—Carl Safina, author of Alfie and Me
“Birds of America is an achievement. The poems sing like the titular animals and probe again and again at our own animal heart. They ask questions that hurt and offer beauty, heartbreak, and balm. This book reminds what poetry is capable of.”—José Olivarez, author of Promises of Gold and Citizen Illegal
“These poems move seamlessly between the wonder of the natural world and dissonance of our domestic lives. They ask that we hold them together and consider what each might teach us. I will be thinking about these poems for a long time.”—Clint Smith, author of Above Ground and How the Word Is Passed
“In Birds of America, Hammons haunts the American pastoral with a studied and uncompromising eye. These poems ruffle, they linger, and at all costs, they remember the thorny trail that a woman must take to survive.”—Olivia Gatwood, author of Life of the Party and Whoever You Are, Honey
“How much I enjoyed Chera Hammons’s Birds of America. It’s gorgeous (also witty, harrowing and moving)!”—Ron Charles
“In Birds of America, Chera Hammons listens like an expert. She listens to birdsong and weather, to hunger, debt, illness, and inheritance, and to all the fragile bargains that let a life continue. Like a nest woven with some of your own hair, these poems intertwine natural history with family history, where drought, extinction, genetic chance, and economic precariousness mirror the risks carried by bodies, animal and human alike.”—Taylor Mali, author of The Whetting Stone
“These days, there’s a lot to think about. Some days, there’s too much. When time doesn’t fly, birds do. The medicinal lightness and brightness of birds—seeing birds, hearing birds—can set the world almost straight again. Chera Hammons’ insightful eye gives new voice to birds, striking just the right chord when a morning needs to get off on the right note, or an evening needs centering before slumber.”—Carl Safina, author of Alfie and Me
“Birds of America is an achievement. The poems sing like the titular animals and probe again and again at our own animal heart. They ask questions that hurt and offer beauty, heartbreak, and balm. This book reminds what poetry is capable of.”—José Olivarez, author of Promises of Gold and Citizen Illegal
“These poems move seamlessly between the wonder of the natural world and dissonance of our domestic lives. They ask that we hold them together and consider what each might teach us. I will be thinking about these poems for a long time.”—Clint Smith, author of Above Ground and How the Word Is Passed
“In Birds of America, Hammons haunts the American pastoral with a studied and uncompromising eye. These poems ruffle, they linger, and at all costs, they remember the thorny trail that a woman must take to survive.”—Olivia Gatwood, author of Life of the Party and Whoever You Are, Honey
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