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Icarus, Falling of Birds

English · Paperback / Softback

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In September of 2013, thousands of migratory songbirds perished after being lured like moths to a flame to a hundred-foot-high flare at the Canaport Liquefied Natural Gas plant in Saint John, New Brunswick. Photographer Thaddeus Holownia and poet Harry Thurston sought to memorialize this fateful event, but with Canaport LNG on trial, the fallen birds were collected and held as evidence at the New Brunswick Museum. After two long years, Holownia and Thurston finally gained access.
Icarus, Falling of Birds pairs Holownia's photography with the poetry of Thurston. In these pages, the burned and damaged bodies of the birds are perpetually falling, while Thurston recounts their great migration: how "they wing like embroidery / through the drapery of fog that clings / to this coast" and of "a false star / burning bright," that claims them.


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Harry Thurston is a poet, award-winning journalist, and author of more than two dozen books of poetry and non-fiction.

Product details

Authors Harry Thurston
Assisted by Thaddeus Holownia (Photographs)
Publisher Anchorage Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.10.2022
 
EAN 9781895488548
ISBN 978-1-895488-54-8
No. of pages 36
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV

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