Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. ALL THE BIRDS AWAKE joyfully demonstrates how, like the salmon, all our lives 'are swirling forward.' Carefully negotiating the terrain between an 'I' who inhabits an intensely felt present along with a keenly remembered past and a third-person 'woman' whose distance allows for conscious reflection, Gayle Kaune moves from chronicle to insight. She takes us out far and in deep, striving for that state of mind where all 'conclusions are gone' in favor of open-ended wonder.--Judith Kitchen
