Pattiann Rogers lends portent and beauty to the notion of an inanimate bird in this selection from Firekeeper, a prize-winning collection originally published in 1994 and now out in a revised and epanded edition.
To mark National Poetry Month, NPR.org is featuring a series of newly published works selected by the Academy of American Poets. Learn more about this and other titles at the academy's New Spring Books list.
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