Deadly Birds of the Soul, Poems by DeAnn Jordan
Dense
with lyric beauty, complex in their formal and imagistic architecture,
the poems of DeAnn Jordan's Deadly Birds of the Soul soar above
the mundane, swooping into matters of the spirit, and then diving into
the depths of lived experience.
"DeAnn Jordan's bold first book sings the body awake with its gothic glamour, its unapologetic angers and lush lyricism. Although these poems are haunted by body betrayals--childhood abuse, the death of a parent, the thwarted desire to give birth--such losses are answered with a daring female spirituality that is nothing short of triumphant. These are provocative poems, glittering, dark, dangerous and beautiful."--Dorothy Barresi, author of Rouge Pulp
DeAnn Jordan received her B.A. in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from California State University, Northridge. She is currently an instructor of College English and Poetry at the Art Institute's California Design College in Los Angeles. She lives in Valencia, California with her husband and her two-thousand books.
ISBN: 978-1933456829, 92 pages, $17.00