<p>Poetry. LGBT Studies. This book is not about Sinéad O'Connor or the gathering impulse of blue birds or the rotten plans of serge-robed men or Aunt Foxy's potted peppers. Even we, its progenitors, will see this book on a shelf somewhere someday and think: Now we will learn all there is to learn about Sinéad O'Connor and her coat of a thousand bluebirds, having forgotten the way human beings forget the importance of remembering. But Sinéad will always remain the ethereal Sin‚ad, and the path to the shorn woman with the songbird's throat will remain (un)regrettably undetectable.<br><br>This is a book about songs. Detectable as blue birds against a white wall against a memory board that contains the only record of Bette Davis moshing. It's about Steve and Hector or impressions of them stumbling through storm weather. But it's really not about them, or their teddy bears. It's about our personal interior landscapes that fracture and wind around each other like a tornado winds around the wind. This book is about weathermen and pink-eyed women. And thermospheres. We have no idea what this book is about. Ask Sallie. Sinead O'Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds Sin‚ad O'Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds</p>

Sin‚ad O'Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds

Literature & Fiction

Seaton, Maureen

De La Flor, Neil

Poetry

Firewheel Editions

Poetry. LGBT Studies. "In AN ELEPHANT'S MEMORY OF BLIZZARDS, Neil de la Flor takes on the inefficacy of gendered and hetero-sexualized expectations in the modern age. As the poem 'Shiva' points out, 'Somewhere between male and female, the soul lives unstirred by the memory of childhood // ....Somewhere between Terminal 2 and Terminal 3, the soul lives in a million humming humans who will pass through O'Hare in the third person.' Inspired in part by music and popular culture, de la Flor employs a brilliant aesthetic sprawl that teems with anaphora and bright imagery; yet within that, there is a rigorous (and ultimately elegiac) interrogation of reality. Pronouns are not to be trusted. You and I can be as close as a spliced consciousness, yet the we is not a harmonious plural. Personalities divide. Alternative memories emerge. Love is a code for lust, one speaker claims, but these poems never settle for hormones and juices. This collection is fierce."—Sandra Beasley

An Elephant's Memory of Blizzards

Marsh Hawk Press

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Jackleg Press

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