Publisher's Synopsis
"Poetry collection by Joey Gould. The grand motif throughout this stunning debut is what Yeats called "a terrible beauty," and Gould undergoes transformations-grief, loss, gender, love, sex-in that dangerous place where the human and the terrifyingly endangered non-human worlds overlap. The Acute Avian Heart is a brutal multitude of new, ancient voices, a feast before which Gould examines the guts of their past and present like a haruspex, searching for the precise configurations to carry grief into a celebration, an impossibility of doors, a world behind each. Gould is the future songbird, "the robin's antimatter aloof eye," through which, for once, the future looks good"--.
