The Bodies of Birds

Author:   Melanie Rae Thon
Publisher:   New Michigan Press
ISBN:  

9781934832684


Pages:   64
Publication Date:   15 March 2019
Format:   Paperback
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The Bodies of Birds


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Resurrected and restored through the bodies of multitudes, a young woman who becomes an organ donor after a car accident radiates unmitigated love as she comes to know the recipients of her heart and kidneys--lungs, bowel, vertebrae, corneas . . . Twenty-seven years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, black storks glide over the Zone of Alienation. Apple trees bloom; lilacs flower--radioactive wolves thrive; bees make glowing honey . . . A prisoner in California, a man who killed a woman a hundred times, who stabbed face and throat, heart and belly, now washes another man in the shower, shaves his face, changes his diapers, protects and serves a murderer like himself, riddled by dementia . . . Prayers, love songs, laments, confessions--these three provocative immersions through and beyond the body explore the revelatory expansiveness of consciousness and compassion; the persistence of love; the trauma of intimate violence and environmental devastation; unexpected grace; and the remarkable resilience of the marvelously diverse more-than-human world.

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Author:   Melanie Rae Thon
Publisher:   New Michigan Press
Imprint:   New Michigan Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 0.40cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.077kg
ISBN:  

9781934832684


ISBN 10:   1934832685
Pages:   64
Publication Date:   15 March 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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