The Lumberjack's Dove av GennaRose Nethercott

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<p><strong>“Serious art does not need to be weighty or explicitly topical. It can be, as it is here, apparently as light as a feather: The Lumberjack’s Dove is, in its manner, a folktale; it is also a meditation on attachment, on loss, on transformation. Like its less humble relatives, myth and parable, it is pithy, magical, its many insights, its cautions and clarifications, unfolding in a chain of brief scenes and koan-like revelations. This is a book of unexpected lightness and buoyancy, as necessary in our tense period as the more urgent confrontations.” --Louise Gluck </strong></p><p><strong>A boldly original and visceral debut collection from the winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Louise Gluck</strong></p><p>In the ingenious and vividly imagined narrative poem <em>The Lumberjack’s Dove</em>, GennaRose Nethercott describes a lumberjack who cuts his hand off with an axe—however, instead of merely being severed, the hand