Gone Bird in the Glass Hours : A Poem Play
ISBN: 9781607817697
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of Utah Press
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Subjects: Literature;

Winner of the 2019 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry

Zachary Asher's second collection, gone bird in the glass hours , is a play in verse, featuring seven voices. It begins with a rabbi, bewildered and bent by personal grief, guided and beguiled by elusive Blue Postman into the world of "the glass hours" and its inhabitants.

Rooted in magical realism, gone bird in the glass hours experiments with multiple forms from epistles to centos, from fractals to prayers. These poems are brave in their excavations of grief and solace, wonder and rage, collective trauma and, ultimately, transcendence.

Zachary Asher is the author of a previous poetry collection, Scarlight (Ravenna Press, 2014). He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Vanderbilt University, where he was a founding editor of Nashville Review . Today he lives and teaches in Los Angeles.

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