Three Birds Deep
$18.00
Sheila Carter-Jones
Winner of the 2012 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award
Three Birds Deep by Sheila Carter-Jones is a stunning book of risk, movement, and deep feeling. With wild, leaping detail and surprising connections, she catapults the reader into the visceral world where the whole body lives. This is not the poetry of the floating voice or the afternoon tea; this is brave, significant work that asks what all good poetry should ask of the reader: it requires us to feel. Our humanity is summoned in poem after poem.”
— Jan Beatty, poet
“Three Birds Deep packs a wallop. Sheila Carter-Jones is sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued and possesses a deep, deep heart. These poems have their eyes on the world and the word, and the lightning-quick imagery and thunderous rhythm of the lines combine from poem to poem to create a truly memorable collection.”
— Jim Daniels, poet
“Carter-Jones writes poetry with an outward calm, but there is turbulent knowledge of the present and a brilliant view of the future. Each poem is highly imagined and has an affection for story that is alive with truth and remembered feelings. Hers is a moral voice with music that speaks through words and an underworld of passion that changes us in the reading. This is an exciting voice to be reckoned with.”
— Grace Cavlieri, “The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress”
