A Theory of Birds Little Hill Marlon Hacla

Marlon Hacla

Yasmine Seale and Robin Moger work in close counterpoint

funny and utterly original

Liliane Giraudon

John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets

A Theory of Birds Little Hill Marlon HaclaZaina Alsous 'Inside the dodo bird is a forest, Inside the forest a peach analog, Inside the peach analog a woman, Inside the woman a lake of funerals' This layering of bird, woman, place, technology, and ceremony, which begins this first full length collection by Zaina Alsous, mirrors the layering of insights that marks the collection as a whole. The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory, historical record, critical theory, alternative