The Flammable Bird

by Byrne, Elena Karina

• ISBN13: 9780970817785
• ISBN10: 0970817789
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: William Ralph Pr

Author Biography

Elena Karina Byrne is a teacher, fine artist and full time Regional Director of the Poetry Society of America. She currently runs the poetry reading series at the J. Paul Getty Center where she recently worked as a Poetry Consultant to the Getty Research Institute. Elena is also the Poetry Moderator and Consultant for the Los Angeles Times Book Festival. Her work has appeared in many journals including Poetry, Ploughshares, APR, The Paris Review, The Colorado Review and Volt

Table of Contents

I: The Flammable Bird
Sanctuary of Hunger	3	(2)
The Proportion of Broken	5	(1)
Nothing Is Anonymous	6	(1)
A Portrait under Stress	7	(2)
Sleep in Your Birthday Suit	9	(2)
Window Portrait	11	(1)
When Words Fail in the Body	12	(1)
Porcelain	13	(1)
Ghost: A Love Story	14	(2)
Entrance of Flowers	16	(3)
II: In Particular
Remote	19	(1)
Kierkegaard Knows No Shame	20	(1)
Origin of Bees	21	(3)
Darwin's Window	24	(1)
Mother Tongue	25	(3)
In the Kingdom of Beetles	28	(2)
Animalia	30	(2)
Paul Klee, Inexact Diaries	32	(1)
Magritte's Hat	33	(2)
God's Watch	35	(1)
In Particular	36	(1)
Answering Machine	37	(2)
Liberty As Warning	39	(4)
III: The Indignance of the Future
Pig's Eye	43	(1)
Immaculate Measure	44	(1)
Without the Elation of Rage	45	(2)
Thirst for Them	47	(1)
Breaking Unbalance	48	(3)
Childhood	51	(1)
Without Exception	52	(2)
Every Definitive in July	54	(1)
Mutiny Allegory	55	(1)
Of Angels & Loneliness	56	(2)
Bee's Connubial Hive	58	(1)
Red Pillow	59	(2)
Red	61	(1)
Palm	62	(1)
To Bird	63	(1)
Watermark	64	(2)
The Future Comes to Him, Faithless: A Dialogue	66	(3)
IV: Lost Vernacular
Copernican Revision: The Flammable Bird	69	(1)
Detail in Black	70	(1)
Field of Aphasia	71	(1)
Going after Shakespeare	72	(2)
Notes	74