Bird is the Word: The Iggy and Biggy Cycle

by Alex DiFrancesco

"As offbeat and arresting as music icon Iggy Pop himself, Alex DiFrancesco’s tight new collection about the punker’s life and his relationship to his pet cockatoo will appeal to music fans, animal lovers, and of course, readers of contemporary poetry. The poems are eclectic in style, sometimes with deceptively simple rhythmic repetitions, as in “Biggy: Origins,” and others more demanding in content, such as “Iggy and Biggy as the Great White Bear and the Youngest Daughter,” influenced by Norwegian myth."

Genres: Poetry

20 pages, Chapbook

First published December 7, 2019

About the author

ALEX DIFRANCESCO is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, Tin House, Brevity, and more. They are a 2017 winner of Sundress Academy for the Arts' OutSpoken Competition, and were a finalist in Cosmonauts Avenue’s Inaugural Nonfiction Prize. They have recently moved to Ohio, where they are still trying to wrap their head around “Sweetest Day.”