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The Red Bird (Fence Modern Poets Series)

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The Red Bird showcases the poetry of Joyelle McSweeney (Winner of the first annual Fence Modern Poets Series Prize) and fully documents for the reader the free verse work of a truly gifted writer. The Premier: On a wave of resignations and dismissals without precedent/I rode in. I drove in from Connecticut. I was called in./I sanded down graffiti from the door/of my concert box. I took the sixth seventh and eighth floors./I stood out under the red tree and opened the preferable flesh./I took the eighth ninth and tenth. I was deeply/in love with the building. Stings the cuts on my fingers,/rinds against my toes. A fat brown leaf/into the red minnowy leaflets drops and stops dropping./They look down at me. A tenterhook adapted/from the linen trade, a cartilaginous collar: I rode in./If you can't chase down your butcher for a cut of white king,/see me. If you're from hell, you're from hell, see/Fat leaf at rest in the still red tree see me. Who am/I if I mean what I sometimes mean.