Having Cut the Sparrow's Heart

Download or read book Having Cut the Sparrow's Heart written by Malinda Markham and published by New Issues Poetry and Prose. This book was released on 2010 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Winner of the 2009 Green Rose Prize in Poetry. "In a masterful work of startling possibilities, Markham layers gleaming phrases into a testimony to the world's particularities, which she reveals as also, paradoxically, eternal. Nothing here is limited by history, but instead attains the kind of simultaneity that drives myth. And like myth, her world is populated by creatures that mean, irreducibly, only themselves. Her ready attention to animals and birds is indicative of a compassion that demands of the world an inventive intelligence, and offers it one in return"--Cole Swensen.