Invoking theorists, philosophers, and such poets as John Berryman and Lyn Hejinian, the poems of Brigitte Byrd's third book ask the reader to follow a ribbon threaded among music, movies, and poetics with an unlinear sense of time. Its prose poems recount and deconstruct a relationship between two central characters experiencing this journey: "Like an authentic vision. Like slipping into a Celtic knot. Like a new perception of space."
A native of France where she was trained as a dancer, Brigitte Byrd first moved to Hawaii in 1989 then relocated to Mississippi (briefly), Florida, and most recently, Georgia. She is the author of Song of a Living Room (Ahsahta, 2009), The Dazzling Land (Black Zinnias, 2008), and Fence above the Sea (Ahsahta, 2005). An Associate Professor of English teaching Creative Writing at Clayton State University, she is also a board reviewer for Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies.
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