Sparrow

by Bethany Reid

"What struck me first when I read Sparrow, straight through from beginning to end because I could not stop reading, was the quiet aliveness and sensuality of the poems. the subjects are simple, direct: rural childhood, its rusted pick-ups, brushfires, and dust. There are children who long to be horses, and horses who bend their necks like young lovers, the fires of early adulthood and a delicate sexuality, religion and its "Pentecostal wind." And then comes the waitress with her name tag, marriage, children. Almost cliché. But it is the sense of reverie that keeps us there, in that country where what is familiar becomes, under the hand of the poet, foreign and extraordinary."

--Dorianne Laux, from the Foreword

Genres: Poetry

61 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012