Song & Error

By Averill Curdy

Book Overview

A lush, lyrical debut from a vibrant new poetic voice A sparrow like a "fumbled punch line" is lost in an airport; a man translating Ovid is transfigured by witnessing a massacre in Jamestown in 1621; a woman smiles seductively as the skin on her back is opened out like a wing; a lizard upon a laptop shimmers with the true life, primitive and binary, of our modern information age. In the sonically rich, formally restless poems of this debut collection, Song & Error , the thread that unravels all we think we know of the world is plucked loose and drawn from a seal's beached corpse. Uniting past and present, history and autobiography, Averill Curdy's poems strive to endure within "the crease of transformation" and to speak-sing-of that terrible beauty.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374280614
• ISBN13: 9780374280611
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"