A History of Half-Birds: Poems Business_Gift_Guide A Publishers Weekly Top Ten

A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014

Rain and her companions hunt the fabled Oracle of Maracoor for guidance and soothsaying

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A History of Half-Birds: Poems Business_Gift_Guide A Publishers Weekly Top TenSelected by Maggie Smith for the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, this debut collection of poems explores the aftermath of historys 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 placesa cave, a womb, a hurricaneto trace how violence born of devotion manifests not only in our human