Bird collector
By: Alison Glenny
Publisher: Compound Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Auckland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780995125186
Description: A patchy archive of hallucinatory field notes, dictionary definitions from inside a dream, and diary entries from an alternate history. This collection of strange poems maintains both excitement and melancholy like the two-edged blade of a letter opener.
Notes: Poems.
Table of contents: title: Bird organ. Kay; title: Bird; title: Lake; title: Forest; title: Pulse; title: Candle; title: Owl; title: Notes on the nocturne tradition; title: The nineteenth century novel: a glossary of terms; title: Objects of self-fashioning; title: Notes on the lantern; title: Footnotes to a history of birdsong; title: Footnotes to a history of mourning; title: From field notes; title: Notes for a biography (For Geneviève Mallarmé); title: Nights with the collector. 1-10; title: Fragment 1; title: Fragment 2; title: Fragment 3; title: Fragment 4; title: Fragment 5; title: Fragment 6; title: Footnotes to the history of the reliquary; title: Footnotes to a history of the fragment; title: Footnotes to a history of the monument; title: Nights with.