Juvenilia - Hera Lindsay Bird

nThe North American debut by cult favorite New Zealand poet Hera Lindsay Bird, Juvenilia wrangles the flamboyant, provocative pique of youth into a poetry collection highly focused and desperately alive.n nthis impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl.........with many beneficial thoughts and feelings.........n nn nwith themes as varied as snow and tears, the poems in this collection shine with the fantastic cream of who she is.........juxtaposing many classical and modern breezesn nn nBird turns her prescient eye on love and loss, and what emerges is like a helicopter in fog.........or a bejewelled Christmas sleigh, gliding triumphantly through the desert.........n nn nthis is at once an intelligent and compelling fantasy of tenderness.........n nn nheartbreaking and charged with trees.........without once sacrificing the forest.........n nn nWhether you are masturbating luxuriously in your parent's sleepout.........n nn n.........or pushing a pork roast home in a vintage pram.........n nn nthis is the book for you...........................n nheroically and compulsively stupid.............................................n nn nn