Bird Eating Bird by Kristin Naca (review)
Let me reveal a secret, I personally love poetry and find that when I read it, it can serve as an escape from the stresses of this world. As if you didn’t know this? But this occurs especially when you read a volume that is so liquid and beautiful like “Bird Eating Bird”. The best way to describe how beautiful this volume is, is to refer you to an image in your mind of beautiful birds lined up on a wire. This image is how I relate to this book. It’s beautiful, awe inspiring and a gift when you encounter a wire line of birds chirping at the beginning of a new dawn. Kristin Naca can weave a sentence like a snake-charmer can coax a snake from a basket, fluidly and with a skill that makes the process look so easy. This book touches on culture, is written both in Spanish and in English, but don’t fear that if you are not bilingual you will not appreciate this one, as it is in full English on one side, Spanish on the opposite page. However, if you are bilingual you will love this one. It’s got a flow and rhythm throughout that makes me see colors and feel vibrant with it’s ode to Asian and Latino styles and flairs. Naca’s poems are lyrical on the page, a dance for any reader’s soul to swirl with.
“Once a bird pecked her lover’s hand With such sincerity that she lost
Hold of the seeds she secretly tossed, To keep all the birds at her command”
Can be purchased from http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/35596/Kristin_Naca/index.aspx who so kindly provided a review copy.
It sounds wonderful!