Believe the Bird - by Beth Wood (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Poet and singer-songwriter Beth Wood follows up her award-winning poetry book Ladder To The Light with Believe The Bird, a collection of forthright, shimmering poems that examine the stories we tell ourselves. Believe The Bird is a book full of questions in the form of poems, pointing to the wisdom of the bird in hand.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Poet and singer-songwriter Beth Wood follows up her award-winning poetry book <em>Ladder To The Light</em> with <em>Believe The Bird</em>, a collection of forthright, shimmering poems that examine the stories we tell ourselves. Some stories are true, some may no longer be true. Some are based on history, cultural messages, direct experience. What if we examine the stories we tell ourselves to see if they resonate with who we are now? What if we allow our inherent wisdom to override messages that no longer serve us? When is a story good and when is it harmful? What if we get to decide what narratives work for us? <em>Believe The Bird </em>is a book full of questions in the form of poems, pointing to the wisdom of the bird in hand.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Aim high, this book says--look up, go to the water when you are broken, bob to the surface, bury your demons, cherish your oddness, tell some things utterly, but keep others in reserve. Be invisible, this book says--so you can keep the riffraff in the dark while you lead your electric life. Deft lines and crisp silences make these poems almost become songs--almost, but then they keep their reticence. Like spells, they make things happen you didn't know they could. How did that open me? Well--though prone to bruising, this book says, the heart has "always a tiny rustle of / something living within." These poems will wake you to a feeling like a headline only you can decipher, survival news of your fierce interior life. </p><p>--Kim Stafford<br /> Oregon Poet Laureate 2018 - 2020<br /> Author of <em>Wild Honey, Tough Salt</em></p><br>
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