in the bird museum

I was apprenticed to the frenzied atmosphere, the verandas that open into dark wind.... Bowen is apprenticed to the "frenzied atmosphere" and in it she finds the crucial minutiae, in it she finds skirts of night and a woman's heart as a wind-up bird. Bowen's poetry is where we go to read that heart-as old- time paper valentine and as fist of flesh: valved and valued...letters written with the bones of birds. So it is, so it was that Here, we came for the ghost of the word/ inside the other word: and here, in the bird museum we are haunted by all that is visual as it is visceral and Bowen, playful, brilliant, curator, reminds us that this place is a synaesthete's playground--where the eye partakes in the delicious but no less-so than the ear, for here: If you listen, you can hear the holes in the alphabet, sounds lit by the lamps of our bones. Like birds we might even rise, our lamp-lit bones: luminous and... fly in a perfect line. Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis

Author: Kristy Bowen
Publisher: Dusie
Published: 09/30/2008
Pages: 106
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d
ISBN: 9780615256863

About the Author
Bowen, Kristy: - A poet and artist, Kristy Bowen is the author of IN THE BIRD MUSEUM (Dusie, 2008) and The Fever Almanac (Ghost Road Press, 2006) as well as several chapbook projects. Her third full-length book, Girl Show, is forthcoming from Ghost Road Press in late 2009. Her work has appeared in electronic and print journals like Cranky, Diagram, Agni, Rhino, Slipstream, Backwards City, Caffeine Destiny, and others.

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