Bird Missing from One Shoulder, Poems by Linda Annas Ferguson
Bird
Missing from One Shoulder by Linda Annas Fergusson is a haunting narrative
of family history. In these carefully etched portraits, memory becomes life
once again.
Sample Poems by Linda Annas Ferguson
"The narrative spell of this book is as strong as that of a good novel, allowing us to enter the life of a Southern cotton-mill family and experience its warmth and difficult struggles head-on. Ferguson's work is both tender and fearless. Bird Missing from One Shoulder contains poems about death, but also the small, happy moments of one family's day-to-day life. It is sprinkled with surprising and original tidbits. 'I could smell the boy in you,' the poet tells us in 'First Kiss.'"--Patricia Gray, author of Rupture
"In Bird Missing from One Shoulder, Linda Annas Ferguson has written a poetry collection that movingly renders the beauty and sadness of life's transience. The poems about her father's life and death are especially impressive, for they not only depict an individual life but also a way of life now vanished from the Southern landscape."--Ron Rash, author of Eureka Mill and Saints at the River
ISBN 978-1933456744, 80 pages, $17.00
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