Song of a Living Room

by Brigitte Byrd

Poetry. Invoking theorists, philosophers, and such poets as John Berryman and Lyn Hejinian, the poems of Brigitte Byrd's third book ask the reader to follow a ribbon threaded among music, movies, poetics, and an unlinear sense of time. Its prose poems recount and deconstruct a relationship between two central characters experiencing this journey "Like an authentic vision. Like slipping into a Celtic knot. Like a new perception of space." "Brigitte Byrd writes dense, lovely, provocative poems. Their prose forms and often rational diction are an entrancing shell game showing and shifting and showing again the true passion and lyricism of her work. In this way, she illuminates the eternal struggle that our minds and our bodies and our hearts are always engaged in with each other and with themselves. SONG OF A LIVING ROOM is a splendid collection"--Robert Olen Butler.

Genres: Poetry

96 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2009

About the author

http://a-s.clayton.edu/bbyrd/Homepage...
http://orangesandsardines.blogspot.co...
http://www.kickingwind.com/112406.html

A native of France where she was trained as a dancer, Brigitte Byrd is the author of SONG OF A LIVING ROOM (Ahsahta Press, 2009), THE DAZZLING LAND (Black Zinnias Press, 2008), and FENCE ABOVE THE SEA (Ahsahta Press, 2005). She currently lives in Atlanta and is an Associate Professor of English at Clayton State University where she teaches Creative Writing. She is also an editorial reviewer for Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies.

Reviews

[Meg · Rating 4 out of 5]

She let me practice my French, yay!