Aviary of Small Birds
Aviary of Small Birds An Aviary of Small Birds is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. For the mother, her body flooded with…
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Aviary of Small Birds
An Aviary of Small Birds is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. For the mother, her body flooded with endorphins, euphoria gives way to shock, followed by an intense and visceral grief. The book opens at the birth, which paradoxically becomes the moment of death when, after a long labor and an emergency caesarean, the baby's heart gives out.
At the same time, Karen McCarthy Woolf's debut work is a formal experimentation that allows an intellectual and metaphysical line of enquiry to emerge. However, just as grief itself is not linear, so too the book follows an emotional rather than a strictly chronological arc, lyric rather than narrative. Ultimately, it is a closely felt connection with the natural world, particularly with water and birds, which allows the author to transcend the experience while honoring