Playful in earnest, Caroline Bird in her fourth book of poems turns familiar stories on their heads. Bird's protagonists declaim Chekhov in supermarkets, purchase mail-order tears, sing love-songs to hat-stands. Her characters and voices are at once savvy and vulnerable; underlying the exuberance is empathy with those who have lost themselves somewhere along the way. The everyday world of The Hat-Stand Union is beautiful, ominous and full of surprise.
The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse
Caroline Bird
bookAmbush at Still Lake
Caroline Bird
bookRookie : Selected Poems
Caroline Bird
bookRed Ellen
Caroline Bird
bookThe Air Year
Caroline Bird
bookIn These Days of Prohibition
Caroline Bird
bookWatering Can
Caroline Bird
bookTrouble Came to the Turnip
Caroline Bird
book