{"product_id":"journey-anna-if-birds-g","title":"Journey, Anna: If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting","description":"\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Georgia Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 15, 2009\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this debut collection, Anna Journey invites the reader into her peculiar, noir universe nourished with sex and mortality. Her poems are haunted by demons, ghosts, and even the living who wander exotic landscapes that appear at once threatening and seductive. In these poems, her sly speaker renames a pink hibiscus on display at Lowe's, \"Lucifer's Panties\"; another character chants, \"I'd fall devil \/ over heels over edge over oleander\"; and one woman writes a letter to the underworld:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear black bayou, once, by a river\u003cbr\u003eI bit a man's neck. His scent: the raw\u003cbr\u003eteak air husked inside stomachs of six\u003cbr\u003eRussian nesting dolls--the ones in the attic I pulled\u003cbr\u003eapart and open. The ones I\u003cbr\u003epulled apart and open like Styrofoam cups.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817195155479,"sku":"9780820333687","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/715me0-mhIL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1767994485","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/journey-anna-if-birds-g","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}