Publisher's Synopsis
In her debut collection, Heaven Fay has created the ballet of Lyra and the Thrush. Through the quaint story of a bird and the girl who saves her--a story of an impossible love--she has composed imaginative, intricately woven movements that reveal the quiet lives of ordinary things. Lyrical and narrative, this Sapphic poetry sets the simplicities of the earth--a bow and arrow, a clothesline, a gooseberry pie--to music, gives them a voice (at times haunting in what it speaks), and releases them pirouetting onto the page. Like an old story found again, the poems in this collection are familiar, nostalgic; comforting remembrances. Heaven Fay is sure to charm readers with this original and gorgeously wistful ballet in poems.
