{"product_id":"birdstlc","title":"Birds (index without order), by Sarah Teresa Leonora Cook","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhere does the self end and the looking begin? When our methods of production and consumption increase daily, \u003cem\u003eBirds (index without order)\u003c\/em\u003e is a chapbook that would rather study the economy of the natural world, with its abundant noises and migrations and light. The chapbook creates a surface, “the grass beneath whatever image I have in mind when I think of the sparrow,” with the words (birds) written across it. Not merely grounded, these poems are of the ground, as curious about the human perspective as they are about the bird one. They know the reach of their empathy will never exceed the limitations of their humanity. They reach nonetheless.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe result is a collection driven by the tension between the observer and that which is observed, between being and being seen; between the sound of a bird and the sound of a body listening. There exists in the work a striving for some new method of communication, for a way of speaking about the natural world that is also speaking through it.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e          “How do I tell you what bird\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e          I saw without hiding what\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e          I saw inside something\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e          else?”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBirds (index without order)\u003c\/em\u003e is more than an index. It is a constellation: it is a series of poems pretending to be birds pretending to be poems again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSarah Cook is a creative writing coach. She lives on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge, where she shares a small blue house with her partner and two cats. Her writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eSad Girls Club\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePorter House Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOregon Humanities Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBright Lights Film Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, and in \u003cem\u003eNeon Door\u003c\/em\u003e, where she serves as poetry editor. For coaching inquiries, a full list of publications, or to sign up for her newsletter, \u003cem\u003eFor the Birds\u003c\/em\u003e, visit her website at sarahteresacook.com. She loves rocks, bugs, and rollerblading.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarah Teresa Leonora Cook","offers":[{"title":"Print Chapbook","offer_id":39773259661383,"sku":"BIRDSTLC","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39773259694151,"sku":"BIRDSTLCe","price":3.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/birdsfront.png?v=1697489235","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/birdstlc","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}