Louder Birds
Angela Voras--Hills's Louder Birds, her debut collection of poetry, is a beautiful study of the natural world, motherhood, and the inherent desire for meaning. This collection of complex lyric poems…
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Angela Voras--Hills's Louder Birds, her debut collection of poetry, is a beautiful study of the natural world, motherhood, and the inherent desire for meaning. This collection of complex lyric poems holds a haunting absence at its center, an absence that is "impossible to navigate." Yet Voras--Hills presses on, untangling the distinctions that surround her (human and animal, domestic and wild) with both bravery and respect. She writes, "The boundaries between home and the road / are insecure: it's impossible to navigate this landscape. / We've all been in the presence of something dark / and have chosen not to seek shelter." As the poet hones in on naming the void, her surroundings grow more threatening--but not once does she surrender or turn back. Voras--Hills's poems are smart enough to know the distinctions themselves are tenuous at best, and wise enough to know that we must