Monica Rico

This beautiful and evocative collection of poems strongly features birds as metaphor, symbolism and cultural touchstone. The author's language is so mesmerizing it was difficult to not choose every poem as a favorite. This is a thick volume of excellence and I was so thankful for the author's generous gift. It is truly a wealth of art.

Favorite poems: Poem in Consideration of My Death; Tomato & Lettuce; Get Out of the Water; The Vows of Frida Kahli and Diego Rivera; Ornithology; Each Is show more Another and No Other; Learning to Sail, I Can Only Think of Odysseus and Ask to be Tied to the Mast; Sacrament; Northern Cardinal; Parallel Universe show less